Mahishasura
Hindu · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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: DurgaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Durga record. The goddess's commonest cult name is Mahishasuramardini, 'crusher of Mahishasura' — she is named after him, and the registry held her and not him.Reference treatment: the goddess Durga defeats Mahishasura, the buffalo demon, as told in the Devi Mahatmya, a feat that is the basis for Durga Puja and Vijayadashami. (secondary)
Sources
- Mahishasura is the buffalo demon of the Devi Mahatmya, defeated by Durga, whose killing is the basis of Durga Puja and Vijayadashami.: Reference treatments of Mahishasura and of Durga as Mahishasuramardini. (secondary)