Tara (Mahavidya)

This article is about the Hindu goddess. For the Buddhist bodhisattva, see Tara (Buddhism).

In Hinduism, the Goddess Tara (Sanskrit: Tārā, Devanagari: तारा) meaning "star" is the second of the ten Mahavidyas or "Great Wisdom(Goddesse)s", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati.

A lithograph of tara