Elements of Hindu Iconography v3.c19.66

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asura, the khēṭaka, ghaṇṭā, mirror, dhanus, dhvaja, ḍamaru, pāśa, the remaining left hand being held in the tarjani pose. The right hands carry the śakti, ṭaṅka, śūla, vajra, śaṅkha, aṅkuśa, cane, bāṇa and chakra. Each of the eight other figures of Durgā has only sixteen hands. The names of these goddesses are Rudra-chaṇḍā, Prachaṇḍā, Chaṇḍōgrā, Chaṇḍa-nāyikā, Chaṇḍā, Chaṇḍavatī, Chaṇḍarūpā, Atichaṇḍikā, and Ugrachaṇḍikā. The colour of the centrally situated Durgā is that of fire. The other Durgās are yellow of the gōrōchana, red, black, blue, white, grey, turmeric-yellow and pink. The central Durgā is in the āḷiḍhāsana posture riding on a lion and holds in one of the hands the tuft of hair, as already stated, of the asura emerging from the cut-end of the neck of the buffalo-form of the asura. The other Durgās are seated upon rathas shaped like lotuses. Such is the description of Navadurgās as given in the Skandayāmaḷa.