navadurga
नवदुर्गा navadurgāThe nine forms of Durga, one honoured on each night of Navaratri, from Shailaputri to Siddhidatri.
Where this term appears
- Who is Durga? Deities
The nine forms The nine nights of her festival are not arbitrary, for the tradition counts nine forms of Durga, the Navadurga , one honoured on each night.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
She is Aparna , the leafless one, and that name is earned. She is Shailaputri , first of the nine Navadurgas of Navaratri.
- What is Navaratri? Worship
The nine forms That different sequence is the Navadurga , the nine forms of Durga, one assigned to each night: Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyayani, Kalaratri, Mahagauri, …
- The Nine Nights Treatise
Many keep the festival as a cycle of nine forms of the Goddess, the Navadurga , and a widespread scheme gives three nights each to the Goddess as Durga the remover of negativity, as Lakshmi the giver of abundan…