---
type: Reference
bundle: shakta-darshana
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id: devi-bhagavata-purana
title: "Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa — देवीभागवतपुराण"
iast: "Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa"
devanagari: "देवीभागवतपुराण"
description: "The great Śākta Purāṇa: 12 books systematizing Devī theology, including the Devī Gītā (book 7), the Mahāvidyā origin narrative, and the Purāṇic elaboration of Devī as ultimate reality; the tradition's own claim to Mahāpurāṇa status for a Goddess-centered scripture."
text_type: "Purāṇa (12 skandhas, ~18,000 verses)"
period: "Purāṇic corpus"
tags: [devi-bhagavata, purana, devi, mahavidya, devi-gita, reference]
related:
  - /concepts/devi.md
  - /concepts/mahadevi.md
  - /concepts/dasha-mahavidya.md
timestamp: "2026-07-01"
okf_version: "0.2"
license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

# Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa -- देवीभागवतपुराण

## Why This Text Is in the Bundle

The Devī-Bhāgavata is Purāṇic Śāktism's systematic scripture: where the Devī Māhātmya is the concentrated revelation, the Devī-Bhāgavata is the full theological library: Devī as ultimate reality narrated, argued, and liturgized across twelve books. For this bundle it grounds: the Mahāvidyā origin narrative (7.28, the Satī story cited in [dasha-mahavidya.md](../concepts/dasha-mahavidya.md)); the Devī Gītā (book 7, chapters 31-40), in which Devī teaches jñāna, bhakti, and her own non-dual nature in Bhagavad-Gītā-parallel form; and the sustained Purāṇic statement of the ultimacy claim carried by [devi.md](../concepts/devi.md) and [mahadevi.md](../concepts/mahadevi.md).

## Use in This Bundle

- [dasha-mahavidya.md](../concepts/dasha-mahavidya.md): 7.28 origin narrative
- [devi.md](../concepts/devi.md) / [mahadevi.md](../concepts/mahadevi.md): systematic Purāṇic theology
- Devī Gītā: the tradition's own bridge between Śākta theology and Vedāntic vocabulary (consume with upanishadic-core v0.6 warnings)

## Editions

Swami Vijnanananda's complete English translation (1921-23) is public domain (archive.org, "Srimad Devi Bhagavatam"); full text also accessible at wisdomlib.org. Sanskrit editions in standard Purāṇa series.
