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Durga
Durga
(or Shakti), the female principle which activates
Shiva, is the personification of Universal Energy. Durga (Invincible) is Parvati in her terrifying form, and in the same time the most powerful embodiment of Shiva's Shakti.
She is a composite goddess who includes in herself different elements of many Gods and local Goddesses.
She has eight, sometimes thirty-two arms, and carries the weapons of
almost all the Deva; She take the Trisula from Shiva,
the Chakra from Vishnu,
the Vjara from Indra,
the flaming arrow from Agni,
the mace from Kubera,
the bow from Vayu,
the shining arrow from Surya,
the iron lance from Yama, the axe from Visvakarman,
the sword from Brahma,
the conch-shell from Varuna,
the lion, Her vahana (vehicle), from Himavat.
Devi-Shakti, the inner force of Gods, when issued forth assumes female forms:
out of Vishnu emerge Vaishnavi;
out of Brahma, Brahmi;
out of Shiva-Maheswara, Maheswari;
out of Karttikeya-Kumara, Kumari;
out of Indra, Indrani;
out of Varaha, Varahi;
out of Durga, Chamundi.
These Goddesses are nothing else but different forms of Durga, the Mother Goddess.
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