Brahma, Vishnu and Siva bestowed a dazzling beam of energy upon their own consorts, transforming them into one generic goddess, Durga. Demon Mahish Asur was killed by Maan Durga.
Kali is said to have emanated from the Brow of the goddess Durga. Kali is considered the 'forceful' form of the great goddess Durga. Demon Raktabija could not be killed by Durga. Kali killed Raktabija by sucking his entire blood.
Durga:
Durga is depicted as a warrior aspect of Devi Parvati with 10 arms who rides a lion or a tiger, carries weapons and assumes mudras, or symbolic hand gestures. This form of the Goddess is the embodiment of feminine and creative energy (Shakti).
According to the narrative from the Devi Mahatmya of the Markandeya Purana, the form of Durga was created as a warrior goddess to fight a demon. The demon's father Rambha, king of the demons, once fell in love with a water buffalo, and Mahish Asur (the demon Mahish) was born out of this union. He is therefore able to change between human and buffalo form at will (mahish means "buffalo"). Through intense prayers to Brahma, Mahishasur had the boon that he could not be defeated by any man or god. He unleashed a reign of terror on earth, heaven and the other worlds.
Eventually, since only a woman could kill him, the Holy Male Trinity bestowed a dazzling beam of energy upon their own consorts, transforming them into one generic goddess, Durga.
The day of Durga's victory is celebrated as Vijaya Dashmi (East and South India), Dashain (Nepal) or Dussehra (North India) and these words literally mean "The Victorius Tenth" (day).
Kali:
Kali or Kalika is described in the Devi Mahatmya (also known as the Chandi or the Durgasaptasati) from the Markandeya Purana, belongs to circa 300-600CE, where KALI is said to have emanated from the BROW of the goddess DURGA, a slayer of demons or avidya, during one of the battles between the divine and anti-divine forces. In this context, KALI is considered the 'forceful' form of the great goddess DURGA.
Slayer of Raktabija:
In Kali's most famous myth, Durga and her assistants, Matrikas, wound the demon Raktabija, in various ways and with a variety of weapons, in an attempt to destroy him. They soon find that they have worsened the situation, as for every drop of blood that is spilt from Raktabija the demon reproduces a copy of himself. The battlefield becomes increasingly filled with his duplicates. Durga, in dire need of help, summons Kali to combat the demons.
The Devi Mahatmyam describes:
Out of the surface of her (Durga's) forehead, fierce with frown, issued suddenly Kali of terrible countenance, armed with a sword and noose. Bearing the strange khatvanga (skull-topped staff ), decorated with a garland of skulls, clad in a tiger’s skin, very appalling owing to her emaciated flesh, with gaping mouth, fearful with her tongue lolling out, having deep reddish eyes, filling the regions of the sky with her roars, falling upon impetuously and slaughtering the great asuras in that army, she devoured those hordes of the foes of the devas.
Kali destroys Raktabija by sucking the blood from his body and putting the many Raktabija duplicates in her gaping mouth. Pleased with her victory, Kali then dances on the field of battle, stepping on the corpses of the slain. Her consort Shiva lies among the dead beneath her feet, a representation of Kali commonly seen in iconography, the Daksinakali pose.
In Devi Mahatmya version of this story, Kali is also described as an Matrika and as a Shakti or power of Devi. She is given the epithet Chamunda, i.e the slayer of demons Chanda and Munda. Chamunda is very often identified with Kali and is very much like her in appearance and habit.
Goddesses play an important role in the study and practice of Tantra Yoga, and are affirmed to be as central to discerning the nature of reality as the male deities are. Although Parvati is often said to be the recipient and student of Shiva's wisdom in the form of Tantras, it is Kali who seems to dominate much of the Tantric iconography, texts, and rituals. In many sources Kali is praised as the highest reality or greatest of all deities. The Nirvnana-tantra says the gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva all arise from her like bubbles in the sea, ceaslessly arising and passing away, leaving their original source unchanged. The Niruttara-tantra and the Picchila-tantra declare all of Kali's mantras to be the greatest and the Yogini-tantra , Kamakhya-tantra and the Niruttara-tantra all proclaim Kali vidyas (manifestations of Mahadevi, or "divinity itself"). They declare her to be an essence of her own form (svarupa) of the Mahadevi.
2007-12-24 20:28:11
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answered by C. Sri Vidya Rajagopalan 7
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As per my knowledge, all these are roles of maan parvati,she is Durga when she wanted to kill that Asur i.e. Narkasur and she is Kali when har son was killed by her husband. These are different roles she played,
2007-12-26 18:12:26
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answered by Jayashree N 1
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Kali and Durga are the incarnations of Parvathi. Parvathi takes the form of Kalior Durga to kill the evil forces. As you say both controls the destruction of evil. You will find the detailed descriptions of these two incarnations of Parvathi and other exploits of Mother Parvathi in " Durga sapthsathi"
2007-12-24 20:23:02
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answered by sreenivasa m 4
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Mata Parvati is Adya shakti. she is a combination of all the 3 devis, MahaSaraswati, Mahalaxmi and Mahakali.
In Durga Saptshati, when the devas worshipped devi to save them from demons, Mother MahaSaraswati appeared from Parvati's body, leaving her body black. After that Mata parvati was known as Kalika Devi.
Mother Durga was named so after she killed the asur Durg. Durga's main interest is to save her Bhaktas from asuras
Mother kali's main interest is to destroy the negativity and destroy the universe at the time of pralaya
Jai Mata di
2007-12-24 21:41:43
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answered by Divya Jyoti 4
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Goddess, Mother Parvathi is always known as Swomya Swaroop, and one who worships Mother Parvathi will be bestowed, blessed, showered by infinite Love and Happiness from the mother and all wishes of a Devotee/Disciple gets fulfilled by worshipping the form of Mother Parvathi,
The form of Mahakali is manifestation of the same Mother in Ugra Swaroop, also called as Mahavidya Swaroop, and is meant for evils, This form is manifestation of the same Mother in different form to destroy evils completely, and Mother in this form drinks the Pains,Obstacles, Worries, Misery of a Devotee/Disciple, This form is worshipped to get more of protection from evils, however both the forms are pleasant for a Devotee/Disciple, both forms are from the same Mother, and Mother takes other form(Ugra Swaroop) to scare, chase the evils, destroys the evils completely and frees the Devotee/Disciple from all obstacles of life.
2007-12-26 22:43:11
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answered by Prince 3
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Ma parvati is wife of lord shiva
lord ganesha was born frm parvati till she is taking bath (its also interesting story because ganesha come through ma parvatis dust )
mother give ganesha servise to watch no one should come when she is taking bath right that time lord shiva came
little ganesha didnt let him to come in as her mother said
lord shiva not knowing anything and got angry
both fought and lord shiva crossed ganeshs head by trisul
showing her loving son death ma parvati got angry and even lord shiva cant suffer her as you may watch in the picture shiva under leg of parvati
this angry parvati called ma kali so whenever she got angry she called ma kali so they arent different only two swarups of ma parvati
2007-12-24 20:22:25
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answered by jignesh0509 1
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i think you can more or less say that, maan kali and maan durga are all forms other forms or u can say incarnations of goddess parvathi. however you can think of all the forms of parvathy and i thnk these also get included in them. so even though their main job is destruction, they all belong to one god as parvathy.,
2007-12-24 19:57:29
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answered by Anonymous
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There no difference between -Maa parvati & Maa Kali,
It's in two diffent mood. Ok!
2007-12-26 18:48:05
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answered by kishor114 1
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They are one and same only, but different avatars. Maa Parvati becomes Maa Kali to kill the evils.
2007-12-24 20:04:45
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answered by chidambaram k 6
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parvathi in cool cutout, where as kati in harror
2007-12-26 04:42:23
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answered by Anonymous
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