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News India Live, Digital Desk: Mythological Story: Whenever the festival of Navratri comes, a name and echo with the shouts of Maa Durga – Mahishasura. We have all seen pictures of her destruction by Maa Durga and heard stories. But do you know who was this powerful and cruel demon and how was it born? The story of his birth is as strange and interesting as his strength.
A love story of a asura and a buffalo
According to mythology, the king of Asuras had no children. He wanted a son who ruled the three worlds and which no one could defeat. He started harsh penance to fulfill his wish. After years of penance, the gods appeared to him and asked him to ask for a boon.
Rambha sought the boon of a powerful son who could not kill any deity, demon or man. He got this boon, but at the same time there was a condition that his son would be born from the same woman, which he would love, no matter what he is in any form.
After getting a boon, Rambha went out in search of his partner as per his wish. While walking, he reached a beautiful forest where he saw a beautiful and attractive buffalo (Mahishi). At first glance, Rama was fascinated by that buffalo. He forgot that he is an animal and married her.
This is how Mahishasura was born
Actually, that buffalo was not an ordinary animal. She was a princess who was cursed by a sage and made a buffalo. A son was born with the union of Ram and the union of that Mahishi, whose body was of human, but the head of a buffalo. He got his name due to this unique form Mahishasura (Mahish means buffalo and asura means demon).
He was very powerful from birth and could take the form of buffalo or sometimes as a buffalo as per his wish.
The reason for the end of Brahma ji who became the boon of Brahma ji
Like a father, Mahishasura also grew up and turned out to be extremely ambitious. He did austerity of Brahma Ji, the author of the universe, to be immortal. When Brahma ji appeared happy, Mahishasura asked for a boon of immortality. Brahma Ji said that the person who is born is certain to death, so this boon is not possible.
Then Mahishasura cleverly thought what a woman would be able to kill her, she is an abla. He asked for a second boon, “Okay Lord, then give me the boon that I do not die at the hands of any god, demon or man. I die only in the hands of a woman.”
Brahma ji called “Aastastu”. Mahishasura became invincible after getting this boon. He attacked heaven and defeated Indra Dev and drove all the gods away from there. His atrocities caused an outcry in the three worlds. Then all the gods together reached Tridev (Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh) and prayed to overcome this crisis. Since no male deity could kill him, all the gods gave birth to a divine female power by combining their powers, which we Maa durga Know by the name of We all know the story ahead, how Maa Durga killed Mahishasura and freed the three worlds from her terror.