दुर्गासप्तशती: Durga Saptashati- With Seven Sanskrit Commentries- Durgapradiem: Guptavati: Caturdhari: Santanavi: Nagojibhatti: Jagaccandracandrika: Damsoddhara (An Old and Rare Book)

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"Sakti appears as the benign Mother, creating and protecting the whole universe. This universal motherhood of "Sakti" is, in particular, an aspect that has rendered "Sakti-tattva so impressive and agreeable an idea as to command itself at once to all humanity. There is evidence to believe that Sakti", either as the great Mother of the goddess of victory, was worshipped by most of the primitive peoples in old days.

"Saktism, like "Saivism and Vaishnavism, is one of the ancient religions of India. The worship of "Sakti" as a supreme divinity, has long been in vogue in this land. It cannot, however, be definitely stated when this "Sakti cult came into existence, and how the different manifestations of 'Sakti' were developed into the deities of popular worship. It is no doubt true that the personification of 'Sakti" was already an accomplished fact when people took to Sakti-worship in its present form. The conception of "Sakti' as all-powerful Divine Mother, is essantially Indian and can be traced back to a much older period that of the Puranas and the Tantras, though these are credited for building up the main structure of Saktism.

The connotation of the term "Sakti is so complex and multifarious that a definition cannot be ingeniously framed. The existence as well as importance of "Sakti' is admitted by all. The scope of "Sakti comprises both, the internal and the eternal world. The Tantras have exalted "Sakti in the highest possible terms, and have personified as the great Mother. The 'Sakta creed, as postulated by the Tantras, tends to make the world an embodiment of Sakti. Sakti is said to be the ultimate reality that lies at the background of all phenomena. It is held that things have their origin in Sakti and dissolve into the same on the destruction of their finite forms. Sakti is eternal and infinite, having neither beginning or end. It is often styled Adya Sakti ie, the primordial power out of which the world has evolved.