Originally posted by: .Reshama.
Why did Shivji offended Parvati for her dark complexion.. how can he do this to his wife..if she was dark and he find it so funny..why didi he married her in the first place!! What example is he showin to us..am so dissapointed ...to end this drama Parvati did tapasya to get a light skin colour..didnt Shivji felt sorry for her..our acknowlegde his mistake...😒
Originally posted by: mnx12
DSS has a different story. When all the rishis & Devatas prayed to Devi Shakti to protect them from Shumb & Nishumbh, Parvati came there she asked them whom are you praying? At that time Durgama appeared from her, saying they are praying to me. She was fair. After she appeared Parvati's skin turned dark, that's why she was called Kaushiki. Seeing her turning dark, Parvati went for penance. As a result of the penance she turned fair again.
Minu what i remember from Saptasati, shivji was teasing parvati for her dark skin pointing out at the oncoming apsaras(maybe intentionally). SO parvtai would do heavy penace and release all her dark skins and become fair. These dark skin cells formed devi kaushiki who is dark and dangerous. When the devas were praying to Shakti to deliver them from shumbh and nisumb, they came across parvati roaming around kailasha or parvati was roaming around kailasha and encountered them( don't remember). On hearing their plea, she said, oh This is so simple. I gave birth to devi Kaushiki, who is extemely strong and extremely beautiful and she will kill shumbh nishumb for you.
This Is the devi who will set out for killing shumb Nishumb. First the asuras will send two of their strongest generals, chanda and munda. They will come running to her and will give loud war cries. On seeing this, kaushiki would raise her eyebrows( for the lack of better word, the sanskrit is brhukunchan, i could not locate the exact english) and from there will come out kali. She is horrible, dressed in tiger skin, with skulls adoring her neck. You all know this part. After killing chanda and munda, kali came to be known as chamunda.
During kalipuja some places worship her as chamunda, Its the most frightening Goddess Idol i have ever seen and that is coming from a kali worshipper.
Btw: have you guys ever wondered, so many Gods an Goddesses in India are actually dark skinned, or tan skinned or bluish skinned? Inspite of the fair aryans, they did not change this and actually encouraged worship and appreciating of dark skinned goddess and gods and people. Even draupadi was super dark. But what the aryans did not do 4000 years back, 20 years of Tv have done that. I am yet to see a tv ram or krishna who is actually dark skinned or tan skinned and not forcibly painted horrible blue for a couple of special scenes?
Also this shumb Nishubh badh appears when devi comes as mahasaraswati roop. Inspite of that, the devi's skin color is actually dark. What a contrast to what they show.
Also I am yet to see a kali roop where the Goddess doesn't have a plastic tongue hanging in front of her mouth? Maybe in a Jai Maa Kali when it happens.
Edited by tannipartner - 11 years ago
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