Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): It is the Divine Mother who exists in the form of the universe and pervades everything as Consciousness – Ramakrishna Paramhansa

The Shardiya Navratri festival is underway in Bhopal. The idols of Goddess Durga have been installed in hundreds of pandals in the city, which reverberate with the hymns chanted from Durga Saptashati, a religious book, in the morning and in the evening.

The history of worshipping the idols of Goddess Durga in Madhya Pradesh takes us back to the Mauryan era and even before that period when people used to make her idols and worship them.

Two of her 2,300-year-old idols, belonging to this period, were found in Ninore in Sehore, nearly 56 km from the state capital, during an excavation from 1994 to 1996. The idol has 12 arms.

The idols,

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