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The Devīsūktam belongs to the 5th Chapter of the Devīmāhātmyam. In the preceding (4th) chapter, the Devī, having slain the demon Mahiṣāsura (महिषासुर), assures the gods that she would help them if they come to distress in the future too.
Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devi-Mahatmya and a Study of Its Interpretation. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-585-01691-7. OCLC 44964497 – via Internet Archive. Gopal, Madan (1990). India through the Ages. New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India.
Narasimha Nakha Stuti; Nārāyaṇa Sūktam; Nasadiya Sūktam; Puruṣa Sūktam [1] Śrī Sūktam; Vishwakarma Sūktam; Ā no Bhadrāh Sūktam; Bhagya Sūktam / Pratah Sūktam; Brahmanaspati Sūktam; Dhruva Sūktam; Durga Sūktam; Ganapati Sūktam / Ganesha Sūktam; Gosamūha Sūktam; Gostha Sūktam; Hanumana Sūktam; Krityapaharana Sūktam ...
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Trisula (trident) at Chandi Pahar, Haridwar. April 1814. Goddess Chandi also known as Chandika is the presiding deity of the temple. The story of the origin of Chandika is as follows: Long time ago, the demon kings Shumbha and Nishumbha had captured the kingdom of the god-king of heaven - Indra and thrown the gods from Swarga (heaven).
According to Rosalind Lefeber, the arrival of Hanuman in East Asian Buddhist texts may trace its roots to the translation of the Ramayana into Chinese and Tibetan in the 6th-century CE. [ 84 ] In both China and Japan, much like in India, there is a lack of a radical divide between humans and animals, with all living beings and nature assumed to ...
The Panchamukhi Hanuman Statue at Shirdi in Maharashtra, India. The deity Hanuman is sometimes featured with five-faces in his iconography, known as Panchamukhi Hanuman, or Panchamukha Anjaneya. [3]
By far, the most important text of Shaktism is the Devi Mahatmya (also known as the Durga Saptashati, Chandi or Chandi-Path), found in the Markandeya Purana. Composed some 1,600 years ago, the text "wove together the diverse threads of already ancient memory and created a dazzling verbal tapestry that remains even today the central text of the ...