History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s6.2

c7.s6.2

The great war between Chandī and Mahiṣ. The great war between Chandī and Mahiṣāsūr is said to have occurred in the earliest part of the Satya-Yuga. The Hindus thus give it a date anterior to any event related in their own history, though there is no mention of this war in the Vedas. This fact is suggestive of the origin of the worship of the mother in a very primitive age and the non-mention of it in their earliest literature—the Vedas, only leads to the hypothesis, that it did not originally interest the Aryans.