Harsiddhi

Harsiddhi in the old city of Ujjain is the shrine linked in tradition with the elbow of Sati. The goddess is Mahalaxmi, known locally as Harsiddhi, and the Bhairava is Asitanga. Asitanga is one of the eight Bhairavas in the Ashta Bhairava scheme of Tantric literature, which assigns a guardian to each of eight directions or aspects. The shrine is close to the Rudra Sagar tank and near Mahakaleshwar.

A local legend connects the goddess with the emperor Vikramaditya, said to have worshipped Harsiddhi, and in some stories to have offered his head to her and been restored. Such stories belong to popular lore about the legendary king and cannot be dated, so they should be read as part of the culture of Ujjain and not as documented history. Harsiddhi's name is interpreted as the one who grants success, from siddhi, which is typical of the way Shakta names promise a kind of accomplishment while stopping short of any particular outcome.

As with Bhairav Parvat, which claims the lip, the elbow is in some texts attached to other places, and a third Ujjain shrine, Ujjaini, gives the elbow too, with a different goddess and Bhairava. The Daksha yajna narrative covers all of them, and the number of Ujjain sites gives the city an unusually thick goddess heritage within the Avanti region.