Parama shiva is one of the Trimurthys. He is the lord of destruction. He married Sathi, daughter of Daksha. Daksha out of ignorance could not realize that lord Shiva is a supreme power. He saw lord Shiva as a mere son-in-law. He could not appreciate his pastimes on meditation and other spiritual activites. He thought Shiva is not capable and did not invite him for a great fire sacrifice ceremony conducted by him. However Sathi went to attend the function though it's against Shiva’s advise. Daksha insulted her husband in that fire ceremony. Sathi could not bear it. So she jumped in the fire of yoga and ended her life. This incident upset Shiva. He destroyed Daksha yagna with help of Veerabhadra and went into deep meditation. Sathi is born again as daughter of the mountain(Parvathy) king. After attaining adulthood, she wished to marry Shiva and started penance. Shiva and Parvathy indulged in a prolonged penance for each other. Meanwhile other devas had to face a very great enemy called Sura Padma. He had a boon that only a son of Shiva and Parvathy can kill him. Devatas felt helpless at the never ending penance of Shiva and Parvathy. So to wake up Shiva from his deep meditation the devas deputed Manmatha, the God of love. Manmatha shot his flower arrows at Shiva. That disturbed Shiva's meditation and he woke up in anger. He opened his third eye and burnt Manmatha(God of love) into ashes. The Devas and Rathi Devi the wife of Manmatha requested Shiva to give life back to Manmatha. Their intention was to bring love between Shiva and Parvathy and hope that they give a male child who can help them in the fight with Sura Padma. But the plan failed miserably. Shiva was still very disturbed. He stared at the ashes of Manmatha. Then Bhandasura emerged from those ashes. He made all the world impotent and ruled it from the city of Shonitha pura. He has a boon that he can absorb half of his opponent's if challenge him in a fight. Due to this, he became unconquerable. He started troubling the devas. The devas then sought the advice of Sage Narada who advised them to conduct a fire sacrifice (yagna) with fire that is outside of our brahmanda (Chidagni). From the fire rose Sri Lalitha Tripura Sundari.
The devas prayed her to kill Bhandasura. Because her power is infinite, she is not effected by Bhandasura's boon. She was accompanied by the powers called anima, mahima etc, Brahmi, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Mahendri, Chamundi, Maha Lakshmi, Nitya Devaths and Avarna Devathas who occupy the Sri Chakra. While Sampatkari devi was the captain of the elephant regiment, Aswarooda devi was the captain of the cavalry. The army was commanded by Dhandini riding on the Charriot called Giri Chakra assisted by Manthrini riding on the chariot called Geya Chakra. Jwala malini protected the army by creating a ring of fire around it. ParaShakthi rode in the center on the chariot of Sri Chakra. Nithya Devi destroyed a large chunk of Bandasura’s armies, Bala Devi killed the son of Bandasura, and Manthrini and Dhandini killed his brothers called Vishanga and Vishukra. When the Asuras created blockade(Jaya vighna yantra) for the marching army, Sri Lalitha Tripura sundari created Ganesha with the help of Kameshwara to remove the blockade. Then Bandasura created the asuras called Hiranyaksha, Hiranya Kasipu and Ravana. Lalitha Devi created the ten avatars of Vishnu and destroyed them. She killed all his army using Pasupathastra and killed him with Kameshwarasthra. The gods then praised her. She then recreated Manmatha for the good of the world. This story is explained in the first 84 names of the first 34 slokas of Lalitha Sahasra nama.
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