4th Day Navarathiri

Mata Kushmanda – Fourth Durga 

Mata Kushmanda is worshipped on the fourth day of Navrathri. . She shines brightly with a laughing face in all ten directions as the Sun. She controls the whole Solar system. In her eight hands, she holds several types of weapons in six hands and a rosary and a lotus in the remaining hands. She rides on Lion. She likes offerings of ‘Kumhde’, hence her name ‘Kushmanda’ has become popular.