Mahishashur Jayanti

Mahishasur Jayanti, also called Mahishasur Martyrdom, is a holiday celebrated by Adivasi and Dalit groups in the Indian subcontinent.^[1] They believe the Mahishasur myth is unjust and mourn his death around the time of Durga Puja and Navaratri.

Hudur Durga, (Bangla:হুদুড় দুর্গা) now known as Mahishasur, was the leader of the Kherwals on a land called Chaicampa (চাইচম্পা). When Aryans came they wanted control over the land so, they hired a Aryan women to marry him. On the ninth night of their honeymoon, she killed him in his sleep.^[2] The Kherwals fled the land. The women who was hired to kill him is now worshiped in mainstream Hinduism as a Mother goddess, Durga.

• Santali interpretation of Mahishasura
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