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before being established in the main Hindu pantheon by the 4th century CE. The most important texts of Shaktism, Devi Mahatmya and Devi Bhagavata Purana, which revere Devi (the Goddess) as the primordial creator of the universe, the Brahman (ultimate truth and reality), and identify Durga as the embodiment of creation, preservation, destruction, ''maya''

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