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A king betrayed by his ministers and a merchant thrown out by his own family meet in a forest and discover they are suffering from the same thing. The question they ask a sage is the frame of the entire Durga Saptashati.
The first chapter of the Durga Saptashati: Vishnu is asleep, two demons are about to kill Brahma, and the only one who can help is the goddess who is Vishnu's sleep.
The gods cannot defeat the buffalo demon, so their combined fury becomes a single goddess, armed by every one of them. The central story of Navaratri, as the Durga Saptashati tells it.
A demon king sends a marriage proposal to the Goddess. She replies with a condition, and then with an army of goddesses — whom she takes back into herself before the last fight. The final battle of the Durga Saptashati.