आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(“benches” or “seats” of Shakti)
General term for a network of sites
connected with the worship of the
Mother Goddess. Although their number differs from source to source—
some list fifty-one, and others 108—in
both cases the sites are spread
throughout the subcontinent, from
Baluchistan (in modern Pakistan) to
Assam to the deep south. According to
the charter myth, each of these places
marks the site where a body part of the
dismembered goddess Sati fell to
earth, taking form as a different goddess in each place. This myth provides
a way to connect the myriad local
Hindu goddesses by conceiving them
as differing manifestations of a single
primordial Goddess. It also connects
the subcontinent into a single conceptual unit, knit together by this network
of sites as the body is connected by its
members. One should also note that
different places may claim the same
body part in the drive to enhance the
religious prestige of any particular
site. As but one example, according to
most “official” lists Sati’s vulva, the
most powerfully charged part of the
female body, fell at the temple of
Kamakhya in Assam, but the same
claim is made at Kalimath in the
Himalayas. Suffice it to say that there
is no single authoritative list of sites,
and competing claims are not unusual. See also pitha.