Narratives from the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa

In the Devī Bhāgavata Mahā Purāṇa, Devī Parāśakti teaches Himālaya who she is, how to meditate on her, and the path to moksha.

In the Devī Bhāgavata Mahā Purāṇa, Bhūdevī's plea leads Devī Parāśakti to plan the Kṛshṇa avatāra and the birth of the devas and asuras on earth.

After King Dhruvasandhi dies, his son Sudarśana grows up chanting Klīṃ, wins Śaśikalā of Kāśī, and the Parādevī herself destroys his enemies.

How Bhagīratha's tapas, Kṛshṇa's command and Śiva's matted locks brought Gaṅgā to earth and freed Sagara's sixty thousand sons, as the Devī Bhāgavata tells it.

The asura Hayagrīva wins a vara that only one named Hayagrīva can kill him, and Bhagavān Vishṇu takes the horse-headed form to slay him.

Śukrācārya wins the Mṛtasañjīvanī vidyā from Mahādeva, lives ten years with Jayantī, and Bṛhaspati takes his form and teaches the dānavas.

Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa tells Nārada how Mahālakshmī arose from the left side of Kṛshṇa and Rādhā from his right, and how Lakshmī is to be honoured.

The Devī Bhāgavata tells how Devī Mahālakshmī rose from the combined teja of the devas and slew the asura Mahishāsura with the Sunābha cakra.

Nārada, seen as the greatest jñānī, falls in love with the princess Damayantī, is cursed by Parvata, marries her, and then sees it all dissolve as Devī's māyā.

On a pilgrimage, Prahlāda fights Nara at Badarī for a thousand divine years until Bhagavān Vishṇu appears, then he praises the Parādevī.

Pramadvarā dies of a snakebite before her wedding to Ruru, he gives half his life to revive her, and a Ḍuṇḍubha snake ends his vow to kill all serpents.

In the Devī Bhāgavata, Gaṅgā's śāpa sends Sarasvatī from Vaikuṇṭha to Bhāratavarsha, where she flows as the most sacred of rivers.

Nārāyaṇa tells Nārada of four forms of Parāśakti: Shashṭhī, who guards newborns; Maṅgala Caṇḍī; Manasā of the snakes; and the divine cow Surabhī.

Sāvitrī, born by Gāyatrī japa, marries Satyavān who is fated to die in a year, follows Yama, and wins her husband's life back.

Devī appears as Śatākshī with countless eyes, ends a hundred-year drought with her tears, feeds the hungry as Śākambharī, and kills the daitya Durgama.

The Devī Bhāgavata tells how Devī slew the daitya brothers Śumbha and Niśumbha, and ends with the account of King Suratha and the merchant Samādhi.

The Devī Bhāgavata tells the Rāmāyaṇa with Sītā as a portion of Lakshmī and Rāma winning victory by worshipping Devī at Navarātri.

The Devī Bhāgavata tells how Sukanyā blinded the ṛshi Cyavana, became his wife, and won back his youth from the Aśvins.

A king and a merchant, both robbed of what they loved, learn about Mahāmāyā from Medhas, worship the Devī, and receive her boons.

The Devī Bhāgavata tells how three śaktis, Svāhā, Svadhā and Dakshiṇā, came forth to carry offerings to the devas, the pitṛs and the brāhmaṇas.

Cursed by Vasishṭha and turned away by the brāhmaṇas, King Satyavrata, called Triśaṅku, is saved from the funeral fire by Devī Mahāmāyā.

How Tulasī, born as a part of Lakshmī, became the wife of Śaṅkhacūḍa, cursed Bhagavān Vishṇu to become a stone, and became the sacred Tulasī plant.