Chamunda

Also known as Chamundi, Charchika, Chamundeshwari

Key facts

Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.type: Hindu
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.image: The Hindu Goddess Chamunda LACMA M.80.3.jpg
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.caption: 14th century Nepalese sculpture of Chamunda.
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.name: Chamunda
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.script_name: Devanagari
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.script: चामुण्डा
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.affiliation: Adi parashakti, Mahakali, Parvati
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.deity_of: Mahadevi Goddess Of War Goddess Of Epidemic
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.abode: Cremation grounds or fig trees
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.weapon: Trident and Sword
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.mount: buffaloor DholeCorpse (Preta)
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.complexion: Red
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.consort: Shiva
Deity<! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.gender: Female

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Origins
Iconography
Legends
Association with Matrikas
Worship
Temples
In Buddhism
In Jainism
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Chamunda (, ), also known as Chamundeshwari, Chamundi or is a fearsome form of Chandi, the Hindu mother goddess, Mahadevi and is one of the seven Matrikas.

She is also one of the chief Yoginis, a group of sixty-four or eighty-one Tantric goddesses, who are attendants of the warrior goddess Parvati. The name is a combination of Chanda and Munda, two demons whom Chamunda killed. She is closely associated with Mahakali or Durga.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chamunda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.