Mahishasura

Of every absence in this lane, this is the one with the largest number of living people attached to it: the festival that commemorates this killing is observed by tens of millions annually, and the iconography of the goddess standing on the buffalo is among the most reproduced images in India. The corpus held the image's subject and not its object.

Domains

• asuric kingship

Relations

• slain by: Durga

Sources

• Reference treatments of Mahishasura and of Durga as Mahishasuramardini.