kumArI
Kumārī , ( 1 ), n. of four female deities (mahāyakṣiṇyaḥ Mmk 575.10 ), also called Bhaginī , q.v. , and noted only in Mmk ; they have a brother called Kumāra (but apparently not = Kārttikeya), 45.17 ; 518.14 ; but his real name seems to have been Tumburu (otherwise known in Skt. as a gandharva), 537.7 ; 538.1 , et alibi ; 575.10 ; in 538.1 ; 542.9 he is called sārthavāha; otherwise they may be simply bhrātṛ-pañcamāḥ, 44.25 ; they are to be portrayed standing on ships and living in the ocean, 44.25 ; 45.17 ; 575.11 ; they are called Kumārī 45.17 ; 518.14 ; 575.10 , but Bhaginī 17.4 ; 44.25 ; 519.8 ff. The last begins a long passage dealing with them, extending to p. 546 , in which repeatedly their names appear as Jayā, Vijayā, Ajitā, and Aparājitā ( 523.6 ff. ; 528.2, 9 ff. ; 537.7 ff. ; 539.7, 25 ; 540.5 ; 543.3 ff. ); ( 2 ) n. of one specific yakṣiṇī (hardly one of the above-mentioned four): Mmk 567.11 ; 569.5 ; also called (yakṣa-)Kumārikā Mmk 569.4 .