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7 unusual facts about Durga


Angry Brides

The landing page of the game shows an eight-armed woman, clad in red and resembling the powerful female Hindu goddess Durga.

Bhagavathi

It can be used to refer any of the Hindu goddesses like Durga, Kannaki, Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali.

Crescent

But other than Shiva, the major Indian Goddesses like Durga and Kali (the latter more often), is depicted with the crescent.

Jivdani Mata

Saying so the Mahar attained Moksha (The real Jeeva Dhana, the real wealth of Life)and the Devi was about to disappear in the cave, when a barren woman saw all this divine incident screamed “Devi Devi, Amba Amba, will you leave this barren daughter of yours without our jeevan dhan a child in my laps?”.

Semar Gugat

At this moment, Durga, the queen of demons, chooses to possess her body and, controlling Srikandi's voice, demands to see Arjuna even though tradition forbids it.

It follows the traditional wayang character Semar as he attempts— and fails— to take revenge against Arjuna and Srikandi for humiliating him by cutting off a lock of his hair while they are under the influence of the demon queen Durga.

Spear

Trishula, a three-pronged spear wielded by the Hindu deities Durga and Shiva


Bangarada Jinke

Bangara Nayaka's Fort is Channarayana Durga which is atop the Channarayana Hill in the vicinity of the Madhugiri Betta near Tumkur in Karnataka.

Barowari

The first publicly organised Durga Puja was held at Guptipara, when some men were stopped from taking part in a household Durga Puja.

Bowrampet

Gated communities like Dollar Meadows, SRR Heights with 99-houses community, Durga Vihar gated Villas are all located here.

Cave Temples of Mahabalipuram

At the other end of the hall, opposite to the Durga panel, the scene carved is of Vishnu in a reclining posture on the bed of Ananta multi-hooded serpent.

Chhibber

Mati Das(son of Durga Mal), as Dewan of the Guru, carried on the administration from there.

Chitpavan

But in Dakshina Kannada District and Udupi Districts of Karnataka, this language is being spoken in places like Durga and Maala of Karkala taluk and also in places like Shishila and Mundaje of Belthangady Taluk.

Durga Puja in Odisha

The earliest Sarbojonin Durga Puja was reportedly held in the Kazi Bajaar area of the city in 1832 by both Oriya and Bengali employees of the East India Company.

Festivals in Kolkata

This Hindu religious festival commemorates the mythology of Goddess Durga and her trusty lion steed overpowering and killing the demon Mahishasura (Buffalo-demon).

Govind Talwalkar

He received the Lokmanya Tilak Award from the Government of Maharashtra, India and also the B. D. Goenka Award and Durga Ratan Award for excellence in journalism, and Ramshastri award for social justice.

Jai Durga Mitra Mandal

Jai Durga Mitra Mandal is a social & cultural group formed to preserve the culture of India and spread Bhakti (Devotion), by celebrating Indian festivals publicly like Ganesh Utsav & Navratri Utsav.

Kattamuru

There are temples of Lord Shiva, Lord Ganapathi, Lord Hanuman, Saint Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi, Saint Sri Pothulooru Veera Brahmendra Swamy (India’s Nostradamus)and deity Kanaka Durga are very famous temples in this village.

Khemukhi

In Hinduism, the term yogini refers to a female yogi in general, but the term 64 yoginis refers to a tantric and secret female cult worshiping Hindu Goddess Durga.

Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Sometime in early 1870s, Pratapa Chandra Roy, with Babu Durga Charan Banerjee, visited Ganguli at his home in Shibpur in Howrah West Bengal requesting him to take up the translation project, which he took up after initial reluctance and a second meeting, when extensive plans were drawn, and the copy of a translation by Max Muller was left behind, made some thirty years ago, which on study Ganguli found to be literal and lacking in flow.

Kodikkunnu Bhagavathy Temple

The Kodikkunnu Bhagavathy Temple or Kodikkunnu Ambalam is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Durga located in the village of Pallippuram, near Pattambi, in Palakkad district of Kerala, India.

Mahavidya

Mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms) or Dasha-Mahavidyas are a group of ten aspects of the Divine Mother Durga or Kali herself or Devi in Hinduism.

Mahavir Tyagi

In the 1920s Tyagi helped resolve, with the help of Maulana Mohammad Ali, a misunderstanding that had arisen between Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru (See Durga Das, India From Curzon to Nehru & After,London, 1969, pp 109–110).

Mahendradatta

Within this Balinese temple compound also founds several Hindu-Buddhist statues estimated dated from 10th to 13th century, such as the statue of Amoghapasa, Ganesha, Bhatara, Durga Mahisasuramardhini, and Budha.

Mahesh Jethmalani

Mahesh Jethmalani is son of eminent lawyer, jurist and former Union Minister Ram Jethmalani and Durga Jethmalani.

Mahishasuramardini mandapa

The north wall in the cave contains a relief depicting the battle scene of the two adversaries, goddess Durga and the demon buffalo-headed Mahishasura.

Navadurga

Navadurga (Devanagari:नवदुर्गा), which literally means nine Goddess Durgas, constitute, according to Hindu mythology, the manifestation of Durga in nine different forms.

May that Durga Devi, who rides on Tiger, who is endowed with intense anger and violence and is renowned by the name of Maa Chandraghanta, bestow her grace on me.

Palakonda

Krushna vallabha Dash, an Oriya Priest from Orissa and a devotee of Durga started worshiping here in 1947.

Saarvajanika Nagabrahmastana Moodanidambooru, Bannanje , Udupi

Ashlesha Bali Pooja, Sarpa Samskara, Durga Namaskara, Ranga Pooja & Deeparadhana Pooja are done at Naga Brahmastana.

Theyyam

Most of these Goddesses are known as Bhagavathy (the Mother-Goddess that is the Divine and United form of the three principal Goddesses namely, Brahmani (Saraswati), Vaishnavi (Lakshmi), and Shivani (Durga)).


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