Vindhya-vasini

Vindhya-vasini
   In Vedic myth one of the terrible aspects of Parvati, wife of Siva. The name means ‘the Dweller in the Vindhyas’ and at her temple near Mirzapur it was said that the blood before her image was never allowed to cease from flowing.

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