Bhadrakālī ((literally "Good Kali,")[1] is aHindu goddess popular in Southern India. She is one of the fierceforms of the Great Goddess (Devi) mentioned in the Devi Mahatmyam.Bhadrakali is the popular form of Devi worshipped in Kerala as SriBhadrakali and Kariam Kali Murti Devi. In Kerala she is seen as theauspicious and fortunate form of Kali who protects the good. It isbelieved that Bhadrakāli was a local deity that was assimilatedinto the mainstream Hinduism, particularly into Shaiva mythology.She is represented with three eyes, and four, twelve or eighteenhands. She carries a number of weapons, with flames flowing fromher head, and a small tusk protruding from her mouth. Her worshipis also associated with the Tantric tradition of the Matrikas aswell as the tradition of the ten Mahavidyas and falls under thebroader umbrella of Shaktism.