Results for "Vel (Spear)"

… to defeat him, meets him in battle and kills him with the **Vel** — his divine spear, gifted by Pārvatī and central to Murugan worship in its own right. The Sanskrit Skanda Purāṇa …

… ugan in the Tamil tradition, he is the cosmic warrior whose Vel pierces ignorance, ego, and fear.

A six-day vow building to a single reenacted battle — and, in the moment of the demon's defeat, a transformation the Tamil retelling insists on keeping: not death, but the enemy re…

The spectacular manifestation of Goddess Durga from the combined fiery anger of the gods to defeat the shape-shifting buffalo demon Mahishasura, who held a boon of near-invincibili…

A demon named Mushika grows as big as a hill on a boon he never learns to control, and tramples the world beneath him — until Ganesha meets him not with a killing blow, but with an…