Bhuvaneshvari

Skt., bhuvanesvari; Universal Empress

This exalted "Universal Empress", whose body is golden as a rising sun and who wears the crescent moon as a crown on her head, embodies "the totality of the transcendent knowledge that sustains the world", and it is she who provides, from her swollen breasts, the very substance of the material world.

Sometimes, Bhuvaneshvari is regarded as a manifestation of the Great Goddess Durga. A translation of her alternative name Rajarajesvari would be "High Queen" - in an Arthurian sense of the term.

In the Kalika Purana, she is simply listed as one of many yoginis.