Paper Title: THE IDEAL OF FEMININE STRENGTH AND VIRTUE IN THE CHARACTER OF PARVATI
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Parvati, a highly honored goddess in the Hindu tradition is a perfect combination of feminine power, virtue, bravery, and intelligence. Her personality cannot be viewed as confined to passive grace; and instead is courageous, persevering, self-disciplined and full of spiritual strength. Being the wife to Shiva, Parvati demonstrates the importance of love, faithfulness and harmony in the cosmic and household life. Meanwhile, her multiple forms (like Durga and Kali) also show the demonic strength of her ability to defend righteousness and obliterate evil. It is this duality that renders Parvati a very deep representation of womanhood where softness is intertwined with strength and patience with resolve. Her narrative reveals a cultural and religious ideal of feminine personhood, Indian thinking. The ideal of feminine virtue is raised to a new level of obedience and sacrifice with the help of Parvati, which offers a different example of a strong inner self, ethical force and divine intervention, which can be reflected upon and served to analyze the text even now.
Keywords:Parvati, Feminine Strength, Virtue, Womanhood, Divine Agency
DOI Link – https://doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/3.II.2026.177-185
Review By – Dr. Chandan Mandal and Dr. Rajib Sinha