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	The Devi Mahatmya Navrathri Katha - Chapter 1 to 13
		The second chapter of the Devi Mahatmya is entitled the extermination of the Mahisha's army and the third chapter deals with the slaying of the demon Mahisha.
		The Devi granted the Devas the boon of removal of all the miseries of all the three worlds and destruction of their enemies.
		When beings become acutely afflicted for want of water due to the absence of rain for a hundred years, in response to the prayers of the sages, she would be born in a super-human manner.
	www.s-a-i.info /assoc_change/navarathri_6_1.html (1990 words)

	The Devi Mahatmya Navrathri Katha - Chapter 1 to 13
		The sage was narrating the Devi's Rajasic manifestation.
		The Devi narrated that during the reign of Vaivaswata Manu, in the twenty-eight yuga-cycle she would destroy two terrible demons by name Sumbha and Nisumbha when she would be born in the family of Nanda as the daughter of Yasoda, residing in the Vindhya mountains.
		Thus ends the thirteenth chapter of the Devi Mahatmya entitled the granting of boons to Suratha and Vaisya, in the course of the narration of the history of the eight Manu Savarnaka, in the Markandeya Purana, by the sage Markandeya to the sage Kroushtuki.
	s-a-i.info /assoc_change/navarathri_6_1.html (1990 words)

	Devi CDs & Cassettes
		The manifestation of that manifold Energy is deified in feminine form as Devi (Goddess) for meditation purpose and the contact with Her is maintained through the spell of Mantras or recitation or musical rendering of Stotras.
		Devi is being invoked - as Saraswathi to energise intelligence, as Lakshmi for the shower of riches, as Durga for the increase of Strength.
		It is a port of the Markandeya Purana.
	www.mantraonnet.com /shopping-devi.html (953 words)

	Devi Mahatmya in India
		Devi Mahatmya is a collection of 700 verses glorifying Goddess Durga.
		Written in Sanskrit, the Devi Mahatmya is to be read without a break.
		Devi Mahatmya is read regularly during the Navaratri festival.
	www.india9.com /i9show/60591.htm (41 words)

	Hindu Gods
		Devi is first seen as cosmic force, where she destroys demonic forces that threaten world equilibrium, and creates, annihilates, and recreates the universe.
		Devi is then seen as a local protector of villages, towns, and individual tribal peoples, where she is concerned only with local affairs.
		Devi the Shining One source of the life-giving powers of the universe, who is experienced by her ecstatic worshippers as the Primal Cause and Mother of the World.
	mailerindia.com /god/hindu/index.php?devi1 (1014 words)

	The Significance of Devi Worship
		Devi worship or Durga Puja is the adoration of the Divine Mother of all things, who bear the seed of Universe in her imperishable womb, the Mahat-Brahma.
		Devi is the consciousness-power or the Chaitanya Shakti, the glory of the supreme Sovereign of the universe made manifest to the manifested Jivas in the world of creation.
		The grace of the Devi is the experience of the participation of the higher Nature by the devotee on account of his conformity to the laws of manifestation in its orders of divine Shaktis or the forms of the one Divine Power.
	shaktisadhana.50megs.com /Newhomepage/Frames/messageboard/Deviworship.html (1866 words)

	DEVI MAHATMYAM
		Devi's frontal assault broke the bow, brought down the flag, pierced his body with numerous arrows, reduced the chariot into a heap of debris, and killed the horses.
		Standing alone and facing Devi, Ciksura rushed forward with the sword and shield, and hit the lion on the head and Devi on her left hand with his sword, which shattered into million pieces.
		Devi slapped, cuffed and bit Karala to death; pulverized Uddhata with the club; darted Baskala and shot and killed Tamara and Andhaka with arrows.
	www.bhagavadgitausa.com /DEVI_MAHATMYAM.htm (5260 words)

	THE DEVI
		'O Devi, your nature is to subdue the conduct of the wicked; this your peerless beauty is inconceivable for others; your power destroys those who have robbed the devas of their prowess, and you have thus manifested your compassion even towards the enemies.
		He went there where the Devi was staying in a very beautiful spot on the mountain and spoke to her in fine and sweet words.
		The Devi split the arrows shot by Sumbha, and Sumbha also split the arrows discharged by her, (each with her and his) sharp arrows in hundreds and thousands.
	sdbbs.tripod.com /devi.html (14509 words)

	Celextel's Online Spiritual Library \| Devi Mahatmyam
		The stories of Devi Mahatmya are as told by Sage Markandeya to Sage Baguri.
		In Appendix 1, summary of talk given by Swami Krishnanada on “Esoteric significance of Devi Mahatmya “ is given and Appendix 2 gives the great Sthothra with meaning which summaries the story of Devi Mahatmya.
		It is important to know that daily the parayana should start with the trayanga manthras, text of Devi Mahatmya followed by the chanting of Devi Suktham.
	www.celextel.org /stotrasdevi/devimahatmyam.html (5083 words)

	The Devi Mahatmya Navratri Katha
		The Devi Mahaatmya is a 700 verse poem and a part of the Markandeya Puraana.
		The Devi Mahatmya is a brilliant poem in Sanskrit, that describes the three stages of transformation of the obstacles that a human soul encounters in the journey towards freedom.
		It is depicted in the Devi Mahatmya that Ma Durga, Ma Kali, MahaLaxmi and MahaSaraswati are not different.
	www.dalsabzi.com /Wisdom_Scrip/devi_mahatmya_navratri_katha.htm (1105 words)

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		Devi is the wife of Shiva which is Parvati; Shiva is the god of generation and destruction.
		Devi is the “Mother Goddess,” meaning she is the mother of all.
		Now when Devi was born her parents did not know what kinds of powers she really possesed, it was only until Devi was enraged when her father was killed that was when her mother had witnessed her true power, she named this form of Devi, Durga.
	www.freewebs.com /devi23/Info.htm (660 words)

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		Being pleased by the praises sung by Brahma who was troubled by the asuras Madhu and Kaitabha at the end of a kalpa, She, the supreme Devi, supporter of the worlds, emerged out of MahaVishnu's eyes, who was in mystic slumber.
		When the different shaktis and Her lion were fighting the asuras, shumbha accused the devi of depending on another's strenth.
		Devi then decided that She had fought enough and killed him with Her trident and made the earth free of distress.
	sanskritdocuments.org /all_sa/durgAstuti_sa.html (1333 words)

	Devi: The Great Goddess
		Here Devi is central to the creation myth; she is the power that induces the god Vishnu's deep slumber on the waters of the cosmic ocean prior to the creation of the world which is a continuous cycle of creation, destruction and recreation.
		Devi agrees to withdraw and Vishnu wakes and kills the demons.
		Here Devi serves as the agent who allows the cosmic order to be restored to the world.
	www.asia.si.edu /education/devi/creation.htm (218 words)

	Devi Mahatmya (The Crystallization of The Goddess Tradition)
		Devi Mahatmya (The Crystallization of The Goddess Tradition)
		In addition to Devi Mahatmaya, he is the author of Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devi Mahatmya and A Study of its Interpretation, as well as numerous articles on Indian and comparative topics.
		The Cover photograph is of an eighth century Pallava sculpture, Durga as the slayer of the buffalo demon (Mahisa), and is reproduced with courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Denman W. Ross Collection.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/NAB315 (479 words)

	Devi Mahatmya - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Devi Mahatmya is to be pronounced as Devi Māhātmya.
		Every verse therein has a mantra value and is capable of producing spiritual and occult vibrations that will result not only in the spiritual elevation of mankind but in their material benefit also.
		The Devi Māhātmyam is one of the four major pieces of Hindu religious literature that glorifies Parāshakti.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Devi_Mahatmya (1342 words)

	Devi Mahatmya (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although this "Glorification of the Great Goddess" was certainly influenced by Vedic Brahmanism, the text is a major scripture of Shakta, a religious movement then apparently evolving and attempting to re-establish the position the goddess had held before the Aryan invasion.
		The Devi Mahatmya, actually a part of the Markandeya Purana but clearly having an independent status, reminds us that the ultimate reality of the most ancient human traditions has always been recognized as being female, and venerated in the form of a goddess.
		The Devi (Skt., "goddess") is shown here in her manifold aspects, amongst which the rather archetypal virgin (Kumari) and mother (Ambika), wanton (Kamakhya) and virtuous woman (Sati); apparent dualities that in fact are merely possibilities of manifestation.
	www.yoniversum.nl /dakini/devmahat.html (150 words)

	Devi: The Great Goddess
		Her emergence is chronicled in the third story of the Devi Mahatmya.
		Confronted by the insolent remarks of the demon generals, Chanda and Munda, a fiery burst of energy emerges from Devi's forehead and takes the dark skeletal form of goddess Kali.
		Kali overpowers and beheads two demon generals, Chanda and Munda, and when she carries their heads to Devi she is named Chamunda.
	www.asia.si.edu /devi/kali.htm (237 words)

	Devi Mahatmyam
		Having made an earthen image of the Devi on the sands of the river, they both worshipped her with flowers, incense, fire and libation of water.
		Having thus granted them both the boon that each desired, the Devi disappeared forthwith, as they were extolling her with devotion.
		Having thus gained the boon from the Devi, Suratha, the foremost of Ksatriyas, shall obtain a new birth through Surya (and of his wife Savarna), and shall be the Manu(eighth) named Savarni, shall be the Manu named Savarni.
	www.geocities.com /prithwis/dm/dm-Day09.html (482 words)

	Chamunda Devi Temple Himachal Pradesh, Temples of Himachal Pradesh, Chamunda Devi Temple Information
		Chamunda Devi is a Shakti shrine, 10 km west of Palampur, on the Baner River.
		Devi appeared to the priest in a dream giving her consent.
		She directed him to dig in a certain spot and an ancient idol would be found and that idol should be installed in the temple and worshipped as Her form.
	www.cultureholidays.com /Temples/chamunda-devi.htm (564 words)

	Devi Mahatmya
		Devi Mahatmya is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti, or Devi Mata -- the Hindu name for the Great Divine Mother -- in all of her forms whilst not rejecting the importance of masculine and neuter divinity (which are however deemed to be inactive in the absence of the Shakti).
		Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and/or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual God in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Devi-Shiva in Dvaita traditions.
	www.experiencefestival.com /devi_mahatmya (1975 words)

	DURGA
		The lion, Devi's mount, sensing the danger, shook and bristled its mane, roared like thunder, charged towards the army and killed them by his paws, and mouth; the battlefield was chockfull of body parts and internal organs of the daitya soldiers.
		Devi sighting his approach sounded her conch, twanged the bow strings in a show of disdain for Sumbha, which was earsplitting and painful, and rang her bell which sapped the strength of the opponents.
		Devi in the wink of an eye, skewered him on the chest with her dart and flung him down on the battlefield.
	www.bhagavadgitausa.com /Durga.htm (8083 words)

	Devi Puja
		Malini Bisen's article on Dussera has one of the stories regarding Navaratri as well as a recipe for a sweet to be made on the occassion.
		It is a long tradition that one reads the devi-bhagavatam or the devi mahatmyam (durga saptasati, 700 verses on Durga) during this period.
		Devi bhagavatam also talks in detail on how one should observe fasts, and how one should meditate/work on these days.
	members.tripod.com /~satsangh/deities/navaratri.htm (631 words)

	In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		Devi (or the Great Goddess) is one of the three principal Hindu deities whose cults have become the most widespread in India over the past two millennia (the others are Shiva and Vishnu).
		She is the mild consort Parvati, the warrior Durga, the horrific destroyer Kali, the smallpox goddess Shitala, and she has many other forms.
		Particularly popular in northern India, Devi is depicted in narrative form in the Devi Mahatmya and also appears as single devotional images.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/godkings/god04.html (153 words)

	Devi Mahatmya Stotra Ashtakam
		Among the stotras addressed to the mother Goddess Durga, the greatest is perhaps the Devi Mahatmya which is also known as Chandi.
		First she came to kill the Asuras Madhu and Kaidabha at the request of Brahma, then she came to kill the terrible Mahishasura as a result of prayers of all devas and again came to Kill the Rakshasas Shumbha and Nishumbha along with their armies.
		Since reading Devi mahatmya daily needs a lot of time, this stotra summarizes the stories recounted in Devi Mahatmya in the form of an octet.
	www.indiadivine.org /hinduism/articles/210/1/Devi-Mahatmya-Stotra-Ashtakam (564 words)

	YouTube - Jai Mata Di - Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu - Maa Durga Mantra
		this unique form described in the ved vyas written devi bhagwath...for shakthi bhagaths these are trhe words from maa herself...quick question..why has one of the images got a edited goddess meldi put on a tiger with kal bherav and hanuman?.
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		Devi Mahatmyam / Durga Saptashati / Stuti / Devi Mahatmya Puja / Chandi-Patha Pooja / Sooktam Poojan / Sanscrit / Saptsati / Shloka (less)
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=SL0OV4zdiJE (528 words)

	The Esoteric Significance of the Devi-Mahatmya
		When the Devi severed the head of one Rakshasa, the blood fell on the ground profusely and from that blood, millions cropped up.
		When we think that Mahishasura has been killed, he comes as a buffalo and when the buffalo is attacked, he again comes as an elephant, and if Devi attacks the elephant, he comes as a bull and attacks Her.
		But, outwardly it means, "Listen to the story of the king so and so, who is the eighth Manu" and all that.
	www.dlshq.org /religions/devi_mahatmya.htm (3710 words)

	Durga Saptashati
		'O Devi, we bow before you, who are yourself good fortune in the dwellings of the virtuous, and ill-fortune in those of the vicious, intelligence in the hearts of the learned, faith in the hearts of the good, and modesty in the hearts of the high-born.
		The Devi said: 'Choose all of you, O devas, whatever you desire of me. (Gratified immensely with these hymns, I grant it with great pleasure)' The devas said: 'Since our enemy, this Mahishasura, has been slain by Bhagavati (i.e you) everything has been accomplished, and nothing remains to be done.
		The Devi said: O King, after slaying your foes in a few days, you shall obtain your own kingdom and it shall last with you there.‘And, when you are dead, you shall gain another birth from the Deva Vivasvat (Sun), and shall be a Manu on earth by name Savarni.
	www.hinduism.co.za /durga.htm (14524 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Devi worship in India, originating from a ‘non-aryan’, ‘non-Sanskritic’ basis, is as old as the Rig Veda itself.
		The Devi was empowered with the attributes and weapons of all the Gods in her fight against Mahisha.
		The Devi is shown eight armed, with one hand she pierces the lance through the buffalo demon's neck, in the other two right hands she holds the lotus and discus, and the two left hands are holding the conch and the ghanta or bell which symbolizes the Nada Brahma or the divine sound.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct04/ent9.asp (1029 words)

	The Goddess's Promises in "Devi Mahatmyam
		Devi's promises to Her devotees illustrate that She works on all levels, depending on the needs of Her supplicants -- She provides simple daily needs for simple folk who wish for no more; material comforts for those living in the mundane world, victory and power for rulers, and Supreme Realization for spiritual aspirants.
		To them, Devi says Reality is not an obstacle to Spirituality -- on the contrary, it is (when understood correctly) perhaps the most powerful vehicle for reaching spiritual goals.
		Devi bhakta wrote: An interesting off-board question from a member: * Q: As I read the "Devi** Mahatmyam," I am beyond myself in the promises she makes to her devotees.
	shaktisadhana.50megs.com /Newhomepage/Frames/messageboard/goddesspromises.html (1114 words)

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		Devi: Goddesses of India (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 7)...
		Included in the text is the "Armor of the Devi" along with all of the shorter hymns and texts that accompany the recitation of the Devi Mahatmya.
		This is a superb translation and presentation of the Devi Mahatmya, complete with a long introduction, insightful commentary sections after each of the Devi Mahatmya's chapters, endnotes, the original devanagiri Sanskrit text, and transliteration of that script into English lettering for easy chanting by those not (yet) adept at reading the ancient sanskrit lettering.
	www.kingsnake.com /books/bookdetail.php?ASIN=089254080X (572 words)

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