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Figure 19-7

Figure 19-7
The lion-riding goddess Durga shoots the buffalo-headed Mahisa Asura who wields a club. Rock penal at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, South India, eighth century CE

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 Dinesh
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The earliest images of Durga as Mahisasuamardini, “crusher of the buffalo demon, date from early Kusana times, around 100 CE. the earliest, and most important full account of the Goddess’s victory over the demon is that of chapter 2-3, in the Devi-Mahatmya, which appears in theMarkandeya Purana www.pushpak.de/markandeya/markandeya_en.pdf Here thebeautiful virgin goddess is created from the united fierce energy representing the fairy of the main gods Brahma, Visnu and Siva, while the other gods provided her with a range of weapons for the annihilation o Mahisa, she also drinks wine to increase her fury for fight. During the battle, the demon changes himself from a buffalo first into a lion, then into a man (a warrior), then an elephant, then back into a buffalo, and a man. In the Devi-Bhagata-Purana, the demon first has human form then successively changed into a lion, an elephant, a sarabha, and a buffalo. In Siva purana, the forms assumed by the demon are those of buffalo, a lion an elephant, and a man~ Page 243
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