Geography/Culture: Hindustani: perhaps especially Calcutta.
Linguistic Note: Linguistic Note: so-named for having slain the demon Durga. Some consider the name to be aboriginal.
Description: Ten-armed ferocious Warrior Devi of protection; Matron of yogins; Great Mother Goddess; She Who is associated with mountains, vegetation, fire and its cathartic properties; She Who sends sickness, terror and death from the jungle; She Who assumes ten forms, the first of which is Herself, in defeating the demons of Deities and humanity.
To Whom Sacred: lion (Her vahana is a lion); human and animal (goat, pig, fowl, sheep, water-buffalo) sacrifice; the colour red; the weapons held in each of Her ten hands (spear, sword); friday (until 1835, a boy was beheaded every friday before Her altar).
Festival: Churrukpuga; Durgapuja in autumn. Festival of Her Birth in the sixth Hindu month (parts of September and October). Navapatrika-navesa, 'Ceremony of the nine-plants' in autumn.
Male Associate: consort, Siva.
qv also "Hymns to the Goddess" for many more names.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title, or alternate name: Amba, Who is linked with Ambika .
• Ambika, is a form of, or alternate name for Durga, Inacessible-One.
• Annapurna, Giver-of-Food, is a beneficent form of Durga.
• She is identified with Bagala, Who is linked with Gramadevata, Village-Goddess.
• Aspect Bahucharma, below.
• She is also called Bhadra, below.
• Title Bhattarika, BH1T*RYK*, Noble-Lady.
• Aspect Bhima, below.
• Also called, Candi, Wrathful, below.
• Also called, Daksinakalika.
• Epithet (of Durga) Isana, Gauri, Yellow-Brilliance.
• Also called, Jaganmatra, World-Mother.
• Also called, Jatadevasi, Possessing-Wisdom.
• Also called, Kalika, , below.
• Title, Karali, below.
• She could be said to be the Daughter of Kundalini, qv.
• Epithet, Mahasveta, , Who is linked with Vac, Creative-Word.
• Epithet, or also called, Madira, qv Varuni .
• Also called Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains, qv Uma, Gracious-One.
• Also called, Rudrani Red-Roaring-Queen. Linguistic Note: Sansrit rud red (related English word: ruddy) and rani, Queen.
• She is identified with Sakambhari, qv Ambika .
• Sasthi, qv, is sometimes considered a form of Durga, Inaccessible-One.
• Title, Sri, Holy, qv Laksmi, Sign.
• Also called, Syama, Black.
• Also called, Uma, Gracious-One, qv.
• Also called, Vindhyavasini, .

Geography/Culture: Hindustani and Muslim.
Description: Goddess of eunuchs, both born and man-made.
To Whom Sacred: dance (by eunuchs, at weddings and birth-parties).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A form of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

• {Check out Bhadrakali under Uma}
• A title of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A form of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani: especially Mysore, where She is the tutelary Deity of the ruling house of Wadiyar, worshipped by the ruler himself.
Description: Destroyer of the asuras Canda and Munda.
Iconography: She is portrayed as an emaciated, terrifying old woman, robed in an elephant's hide and wearing a garland of corpses.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant Camunda.
• Also called Candi, , below
• A form of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.
• Title of Kali, Black-One.
• She is said to reveal Herself in the form of Kaumari, K9M*RE, ----.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani. Pre-Vedic. She is especially popular in Bengal.
Description: Destroyer of the asura Mahisa.
Festival: Annual Durgapuja, which celebrates Her destruction of Mahisa.
Male Associate: Mahisa.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is called Camundi, The-Destroyer in Mysore, above.
• Variant Canda.
• Variant Candika.
• The fierce form assumed by Durga, Inaccessible-One, (above), to destroy the asura Mahisa {see HDH 174}.
• She is said to be identical with Kali, Black-One, qv.
• Sometimes Narasimhi, ----, is substituted for Her as one of the Saptamatrkas, Seven-Divine-Mothers.
• One of the: Saptamatrkas, Seven-Mothers, Who are linked with Annapurna, Giver-of-Food.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: see Daksina, qv Athumla.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A title of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Fifth of the Ten Warrior Forms assumed by Durga in which She destroyed an army of giants.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Jagadhamba.
• Epithet of Parvati, `She-of-the-Mountains', qv Uma.
• Epithet of Sarasvati, `She-Who-Flows', qv.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Tenth of the Ten Warrior Forms assumed by Durga.

Titles/Variants, etc: Titles/Variants, etc:
• Epithet of Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Sixth of the Ten Warrior Forms assumed by Durga.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• This appears to be a form of Kali, qv.
• The apparent variant Kalika, Black-One, is also an alternate name for Durga, .
• Durga is said to be the high-caste counterpart of Kali; Kali is born from the forehead of Ambika; Durga is born from the combined Kundalini's, (qv), of the Deities.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• One of Agni's seven tongues of fire.
• Title of Durga, Inaccessible-One, above.