Badi Mata
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Badi Mata/Chamariya Mata[1][2][3] is a Hindu goddess of disease, one of a group of seven sister goddesses with similar associations. Chamariya Mata/Badi Mata is doubtless allied to Chamars.[3][2][1] Badi Mata is worshipped by some tribes in India, such as the Saharia, Chamar and the Kamar.[4][5] Her worshippers believe that her wrath causes people to suffer from smallpox.[5] The worshippers sacrifice goats to appease her.[4] Badi Mata's sisters were Sitala Mata, Phul Mata, Pansahi Mata, Gusulia Mata, Kankar Mata, and Malbal.[6] She was also associated with Choti Mata, who is associated with chicken pox, and Sendri Mata who is associated with measles.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reddy, Prof Katta Narasimha; Reddy, Prof E. Siva Nagi; Naik, Prof K. Krishna (31 January 2023). Kalyana Mitra: Volume 10. Blue Rose Publishers.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferrari, Fabrizio M. (20 November 2014). Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North India: The Healing Power of Sitala. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-9872-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (in Deutsch). 1905.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Awadesh N. Sharma; Rajesh K. Gautam; Ajay K. Gharami (1 January 2006). Indigenous Health Care and Ethno-medicine. Sarup & Sons. pp. 251–253. ISBN 978-81-7625-724-4.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Georg Pfeffer; Deepak Kumar Behera (1997). Contemporary Society: Tribal situation in India. Concept Publishing Company. p. 281. ISBN 978-81-7022-984-1. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ↑ Commissioner, India Census (1902). Census of India, 1901.
- ↑ Sanjay Sharma (25 April 2013). Baid, Hakim & Doctors: The Medicine Heritage of India. Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 978-93-81576-48-9.
