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The newborn Durga led a battle against Mahishasura, riding a lion, and killed him. Thereafter, she was named Mahishasuramardini, meaning The Killer of Mahishasura. [3] [9] According to the Lakshmi Tantra, it is the goddess Lakshmi who slays Mahishasura instantaneously, and extolling her feat is described to offer everlasting supremacy. [10]
The authorship of the Mahishasura Mardini Stotra is attributed to the theologian Adi Shankara. This hymn is mentioned in the 53rd chapter of the 1st portion of the text Shivarahasya Purana . [ 5 ] The hymn is based on the text Devi Mahatmya , [ 6 ] referencing a number of legends of the goddess Durga such as slaying Mahishasura, Raktabija , as ...
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In each hand she holds Chura, arrow,Khadga, Trisula, Dhala, Dhanu, Ghanta & in the lower left hand she holds the Mastaka of the Asura. Here Mahishasura is depicted in human form. If you look carefully you can notice a lion which is the vahana of maa Durga attacking the Mahishasura from the back. The eight handed Durga appeared about ninth century.
Mahishasura is able to use his powers to defeat the male gods because he had been granted a boon that he could only be defeated by a woman. Feeling angered and helpless, the gods release energy which combines into a singular mass of light and strength which takes the form of a goddess, Durga. [42] The gods then bestow her with various weapons.
Durga is commonly known as Mahishasura-mardini for slaying the half-buffalo demon Mahishasura. [31] She is also known as Vindhyavasini (she who dwells in the Vindhya Mountains). [ 32 ] Her other epithets include Mahamoha (great delusion), Mahasuri (the great demoness), Tamasi (the great night, the night of delusion).
Goddess Durga killing Mahishasura, Sacred idol in Rani ki vav The Devi Mahatmya , literally "glorification or praises of the Goddess", constitutes chapters 81 to 93 of the Markandeya Purana . [ 6 ] It is the primary bhakti text of those who revere Durga or Chandi as the Shakti . [ 8 ]
The Lakshana Devi Temple in Bharmour is a post-Gupta era Hindu temple in Himachal Pradesh dedicated to Durga in her Mahishasura-mardini form. It is dated to the second half of the 7th-century, and is in part one of the oldest surviving wooden temples in India. [4] [1] [5]