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Mahagauri Mata is the eighth goddess to be worshipped in Navratri. She is a symbol of brightness and peace. The name Mahagauri means extremely white. Maha means extremely and Gauri means white. The story behind her existence was that after Kaali had killed Raktabeej and had calmed down to become Parvati, she still had a black skin tone. She wanted to get rid of the color, so she worshipped Lord Brahma. He gave her a boon to take a holy dip in Mansarovar river and gain back her original form. The black skin of Parvati became a Shakti Swaroop called Kaushiki and the extremely fair complexion attained by Parvati kept her name Mahagauri. Meanwhile, Kaushiki killed Dhumralochan who was another budding demon with an aim to create restlessness on Earth. After killing Dhumralochan, she went to merge with Chandi and Chamunda to hunt down Shumbha and Nishumbha. After all the killings and establishment of peace, all the forms of Parvati and Durga combined together with Mahagauri to make a wheatish complexion named Gauri, another name of Parvati.
There is one more reference that states that Lord shiva wanted to provide a worship form for the dark-skinned people, so he secretly turned the color of Parvati to Black and called her Kaali and Shyama, both meaning black in color, playfully. Parvati did not find it a funny idea and was really angry. She went to talk to Lord Brahma about this who told her to take a dip in the Mansarovar river and redeem her skin color. She did get a lot fairer and was named Mahagauri due to her blinding white aura. But soon she felt to preserve the dark skin and gave it a shakti form called Kaushiki. Layer, she merged all her formats and became Gauri from Mahagauri.
Mahagauri rides a white bull, wears a white saree, holds a white lotus in one of her hands, white kamandal in second hand, white trident in a third hand, and the fourth hand is for blessing the devotees.
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