Dhumavati
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Dhoomavati alone among the Mahavidyas has no consort: the widow-form of Alakshmi, avoided by married women yet invoked to end extreme misfortune.
Dhoomavati, depicted as a widow without a male consort — unique among the Mahavidyas — is the tantric form of Alakshmi (opposite to Lakshmi), representing misfortune and desolation; the author notes her worship is traditionally avoided by married women or in households, though her prayogas are said to liberate one from extreme misfortune.
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