Kushmanda

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Kushmanda (Sanskrit: कूष्माण्डा, romanized: Kūṣmāṇḍā) is the fourth goddess in the Navadurga tradition, in which nine forms of Durga are worshipped successively during Navaratri. Kushmanda is worshipped on its fourth day. In the devotional account presented in Nava Durga, she brings light to the primordial darkness through her smile, from which the cosmic egg and the manifested universe arise.