Mahishasura
महिषासुर mahiṣāsuraThe buffalo demon slain by the Goddess in the Devi Mahatmya, the central myth re-enacted every autumn at Durga Puja.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Since 2011, Mahishasura Jayanti or Mahishasur Shahadat Divas has been observed at Jawaharlal Nehru University and then well beyond it, mourning Mahisha as a martyred indigenous king and reading Durga's spear as…
- Who is Durga? Deities
There is a moment in the Devi Mahatmya , the great scripture of the Goddess, that turns the usual order of things upside down. The buffalo-demon Mahishasura has conquered heaven.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
…tumn for the next fifteen centuries, the gods lost. The buffalo demon Mahishasura had thrown them out of heaven.
- What is Navaratri? Worship
The demon who could not be killed by a man The middle battle is the slaying of Mahishasura , the buffalo demon, and its shape explains the nine nights.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
The gods, driven from heaven by demons, pour their concentrated energies together, and from that combined fire the Goddess takes form and goes to battle. She kills the buffalo demon Mahishasura.
- The Goddess Takes the Field Treatise
The buffalo-demon Mahishasura had defeated Indra and the host of heaven and seized the three worlds, and the gods, cast out and powerless, went to Vishnu and Shiva for help.
- The Nine Nights Treatise
Eden Pargiter's translation of 1904 carries it in the public domain. The demon was Mahishasura , the buffalo-demon.
- Victory and Light Treatise
It is the day Durga killed Mahishasura , the climax the nine nights were climbing toward.