Demon Buffalo Culture Of Newari Community Tensions inflamed by anti-Constitution sentiments flared anew today with agitating activists of Madhes-based political parties clashing with the police in Nepal's southern city of Birgunj. An Indian national died in police firing in the Nepali border town -- the victim was a resident of Raxaul across the border in Bihar.
This eighteen-armed version of the goddess Durga originally stood on a pedestal upon which she vanquished the buffalo demon Mahishasura, trampling him with one foot while transfixing him with Shiva’s trident. This iconography is the supreme expression of the power of this goddess, “the Unassailable, the Unconquerable.”
