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Clarity needed

Because they made little sense to me, had errors of grammar and usage which I couldn't entirely fix, and were unsourced, I removed these paragraphs in the Mantra section. They were added in this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tara_(Devi)&diff=259885276&oldid=252889838

Tara was the second place of 10 mahavidyas. She is very dangerous looking mother, When the purascharana is going on with this goddess there will be many testing to the devotee. When the testings are passed by the devotee she will give what ever he want. Tara description was like this,. She stands on the dead body, having the four harms with on of the hand she had a scissors and second Sword, third a flower and third with the dyana mudra. And she wear the cloths, with the tigers skin and having a maala with the heads of the Evils. She is the domination goddess of the yantra. In the Yantra shastra she plays a prominent role which was very diffucult to achiev.

Tara devi temples are mostly located in china which is once upon a time yantra shastra was well developed. "She is just like 'lord shiva', ie., Lord shivas female role was TARA".

If someone with more knowledge of the subject and culture can turn them into something suitable, please do. Thanks. --NealMcB (talk) 04:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More Clarity needed...

From the first paragraph of the iconography section, "In Tantras, Lord Shiva forbids every Sadhaka to see any difference in Kali and Tara , and warns that those who think them separate shall go to hell as punishment.". A source is needed. Some clarification about the concept of "going to hell as punishment" in a Hindu context would also be helpful.68.203.14.51 (talk) 20:29, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Two separate words

I believe that two separate words are being confounded:

In many other contemporary Indian languages, the word 'tara' also means star. As the star is seen as a beautiful but perpetually self-combusting thing, so Tara is perceived at core as the absolute, unquenchable hunger that propels all life.

There are two words in Sanskrit that look similar / same to an English only speaker. One word is तार or Tara which means star. The other word तारा or tarā means liberator, savior. Note the long ā on the second word. These distinctions are lost to many. But these are two separate unrelated words. Tsawangdorje (talk) 17:05, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Image

Please let me know if I am wrong. I think that the image in the infobox is depicting the Buddhist goddess. If yes, then it should be changed as it is creating confusion. There is already a separate article about the Buddhist goddess Tara. 245CMR (talk) 04:44, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

245CMR, I thinking the four-to-eight-hands-having, weapons-wielding, severed-head-holding, on-another-humanoid-standing, garland-of-skulls-wearing, feasting-on-blood Tara is the Hindu goddess, and the normal-humanoid, meditating or posing-for-a-painting Tara is the Buddhist Bodhisattva. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 05:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK User:Usedtobecool, thank you very much.👨🏻‍🎨 💠245CMR💠.•^👥📜 06:08, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]