Asura · Shakta · Pan-India

Durgama

Also called: Durgamasura

A demon, son of Ruru, who won all the Vedas from Brahma by a thousand years of tapas, so that worship stopped and a hundred years of drought followed, until the goddess killed him and took his name as hers, Durga.

Sources: Devi Bhagavata Purana 7.28, On the glory of Shatakshi Devi, tr. Swami Vijnanananda (1921) · see Durgama's web

Relations 2

Durgama received a boon from

Brahma (God) Shakta · Durgama, the weeping eyes and the goddess of greens
All the Vedas, after a thousand years of tapas.

Durgama slain by

Durga (God) Shakta · Durgama, the weeping eyes and the goddess of greens
Takes her name from him.

Stories 1

Durgama, the weeping eyes and the goddess of greens
Legend · as the demon who took the Vedas · 2 tellings

Cited

Devi Bhagavata Purana 7.28, On the glory of Shatakshi Devi, tr. Swami Vijnanananda (1921) Primary text (translation)