saktiṃ

Sakti- ((Speer’), so 11 603 (sv sdktr), mit Lit - saktipama-, s.u II 504 (s v. saptaparna-) — [Mayrhofer, s.v. Sakti-, p. 517]

śakti or śakti f. power, ability, strength, might, effort, energy, capability (śaktyā or ātmaś or svaś, ‘according to ability’; paraṃśaktyā, ‘with all one's might’; vittaśaktyā, ‘according to the capability of one's property’; śaktimahāpayitvā, ‘not relaxing one's efforts, exerting all one's strength’), faculty, skill, capacity for, power over ( gen. loc. dat. , or inf. ), RV. &c. &c.

the energy or active power of a deity personified as his wife and worshipped by the Śākta ( q.v. ) sect of Hindūs under various names (sometimes only three, sometimes eight Śakti goddesses are enumerated, as follow, Indrāṇī , Vaiṣṇavī , Śāntā , Brahmāṇī , Kaumārī , Nārasiṃhī , Vārāhī , and Māheśvarī , but some substitute Cāmuṇḍā and Caṇḍikā for the third and sixth of these: according to another reckoning there are nine, viz. Vaiṣṇavī , Brahmāṇī , Raudrī , Māheśvarī , Nārasiṃhī , Vārāhī , Indrāṇī , Kārttikī , and Pradhānā : others reckon fifty different forms of the Śakti of Viṣṇu besides Lakṣmī , some of these are Kīrtti , Kānti , Tuṣṭi , Puṣṭā , Dhṛti , Śānti , Kriyā , Dayā , Medhā &c.; and fifty forms of the Śakti of Śiva or Rudra besides Durgā or Gaurī , some of whom are Guṇodarī , Virajā , Śālmalī , Lolākṣī , Vartulākṣī , Dīrgha-ghoṇā , Sudīrgha-mukhī , Go-mukhī , Dīrgha-jihvā , Kuṇḍodarī , Ardha-keśī , Vikṛta-mukhī , Jvālā-mukhī , Ulkāmukhī &c.; Sarasvatī is also named as a Śakti , both of Viṣṇu and Rudra : according to the Vāyu-Purāṇa the female nature of Rudra became twofold, one half asita or white, and the other sita or black, each of these again becoming manifold, those of the white or mild nature included Lakṣmī , Sarasvatī , Gaurī , Umā &c.; those of the dark and fierce nature, Durgā , Kālī &c.), Kāv. ; Kathās. ; Pur. ( cf. RTL. 181 &c.; MWB. 216 )

the power or signification of a word (defined in the Nyāya as padasya padA rTe sambanDaH i.e. ‘the relation of a word to the thing designated’), Bhāṣāp. ; Sāh.