Day Four of Navratri – Kushmanda

Kush translates in to joy or delight and she generated or I say produced the universe with a smile. She is glowing and bright as the Sun and rides on a lion. She is very well known in this Universe as Ashtabhuja or eight handed.

Goddess Kushmanda’s each of seven hands possess the holy pot - Kamandal, a bow, an arrow, a lotus, a pot full of wine, a disc and a club. The eighth hand of goddess possesses a string of rosary beads that is understood and assumed as to give as blessing in form of success, good sense and cautiousness.