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A demon from every drop of whose blood another demon springs, and a goddess dark enough to swallow them all. The seventh night is the most terrifying form of the nine — and is called the auspicious one.
At the end of their exile the Pandavas hid their weapons in a shami tree. A year later Arjuna, disguised as a dance teacher, climbed it to take back his bow. Why people still worship the shami on Dussehra.
Before his last battle with Ravana, Rama wakes the Goddess out of season and offers her a hundred and eight lotuses — and when one goes missing, he reaches for his own eye. Why Durga Puja falls in autumn.
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.
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.