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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—U

Uma

consort of Siva, famous for her defeat of the army of Chanda and Munda, two demons. She is represented as holding the head of Chanda in one of her four hands, and trampling on Munda. The heads of the army., strung into a necklace, adorn her body, and a girdle of the same surrounds her waist.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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