Shri Shiv Durga Mandir

Durga, also identified as Adi Parashakti, Devī, Shakti, Bhavani, Parvati, Amba and by numerous other names, is a principal and popular form of Hindu goddess.[3][4][5] She is the warrior goddess, whose mythology centers around combating evils and demonic forces that threaten peace, prosperity and dharma of the good.[4][6] She is the fierce form of the protective mother goddess, willing to unleash her anger against wrong, violence for liberation and destruction to empower creation.[7]nnDurga is depicted in the Hindu pantheon as a goddess riding a lion or tiger, with many arms each carrying a weapon,[2] often defeating Mahishasura (lit. buffalo demon).[8][9] She appears in Indian texts as the wife of god Shiva, as another form of Parvati or mother goddess.[8][10]nnShe is a central deity in Shaktism tradition of Hinduism, where she is equated with the concept of ultimate reality called Brahman.[11][6] One of the most important texts of Shaktism is Devi Mahatmya, also called as Durgā Saptashatī, which celebrates Durga as the Goddess, declaring her as the Supreme Being and the creator of the universe.[12][13][14] Estimated to have been composed between 400 and 600 CE,[15][16][17]this text is considered by Shakta Hindus to be as important scripture as the Bhagavad Gita.[18][19] She has a significant following all over India, Bangladesh and Nepal, particularly in its eastern states such as West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and Bihar. Durga is revered after spring and autumn harvests, specially during the festival of Navratri.[20][21nnOne of the earliest evidence of reverence for Devi – the feminine nature of God, appears in chapter 10.125 of the Rig Veda, one of the scriptures of Hinduism. This hymn is also called the Devi Suktam hymn (abridged):[32][33]nnI am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship.nThus gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in.nThrough me alone all eat the food that feeds them, – each man who sees, breathes, hears the word outspoken.nThey know it not, yet I reside in the essence of the Universe. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it.nI, verily, myself announce and utter the word that gods and men alike shall welcome.nI make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him nourished, a sage, and one who knows Brahman.nI bend the bow for Rudra [Shiva], that his arrow may strike, and slay the hater of devotion.nI rouse and order battle for the people, I created Earth and Heaven and reside as their Inner Controller.nOn the world's summit I bring forth sky the Father: my home is in the waters, in the ocean as Mother.nThence I pervade all existing creatures, as their Inner Supreme Self, and manifest them with my body.nI created all worlds at my will, without any higher being, and permeate and dwell within them.nThe eternal and infinite consciousness is I, it is my greatness dwelling in everything.

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