Ashtadashabhuja Mahalakshmi Durga

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The Dashabhuja (ten-armed) Mahakali Durga is invoked

in the first chapter of the Chandi Patha. The

Ashtadashabhuja Mahalakshmi Durga is invoked in the

2nd, 3rd, and fourth chapters. The Ashtabhuja

(eight-armed) Mahsaraswati Durga presides over the

rest of the book (chapters 5 through 13).

 

Images of Durga almost always have eight arms, but the

Mahalakshmi form superceeds the other two (her number

of arms includes both ten and eight).

 

I have a bronze of Durga on my altar, and I just went

to count her arms. Sixteen... seventeen... EIGHTEEN!

The murthi is shown slaying Mahishaasura, and she has

18 arms. Let me see if I can find a website still

selling this image of Ashtadashabuja Durga.

 

-- Len/ Kalipadma

 

 

--- Adwaith Menon <menonar wrote:

> The fullsize picture is here

>

http://hindusaktha.jagaddhatri.com/images/mahalakshmi1.html

> and the temple in cuttack

> "www.maacuttackchandi.com/"

>

> , "Adwaith

> Menon" <menonar>

> wrote:

> >

> > I think the two temples you are referring to are

> the "Om Sri

> > skandashramam" temples ate tambaram channai and

> salem in tamil nadu

> > whichz also famous for the 12-13 foor tall

> prathyangira idol installed

> > there.! the small picture at the top of there page

> is that of

> > "Astadasabhuja Mahalakshmi Durga"

> > http://education.vsnl.com/skandashramam/main.html

> >

> >

> > , nityashakti

> <sadhvi@c...>

> > wrote:Hello all,

> > > Perhaps if I introduce myself, someone might

> respond to my earlier

> > post? I am deeply involved in practice, have been

> a Sri Vidya upasaka

> > for a number of years and attend a local Hindu

> Temple. I am looking

> > for information on Astha Dasa Bhuja Mahalakshmi

> Durga. She is the 18

> > armed form of Lakshmi, sometimes called

> "Chandi".There are a couple of

> > temples devoted to her in South India, one near

> Chennai and one in

> > > Salem. I am trying to find: sotras, texts,

> pujas, any information at

> > all. i am new to this group. Am I doing this

> right? Anyone?

> > > sadhvi/nityashakti

> > >

> >

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