Durga
Durga. Mahisamardini Durga killed Mahisasura. Durga Puja is a great festival of Orissa. Durga is parsva devata of the Siva temples - she emanated from the collective power of all the gods. Normally eight armed or ten armed Durga. She is described as the primordial power of the ~niverse in Sankhya philosophy.
