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Mahisasura brought up by his mother and grew as a ball of fire. He was simply amazing. Now, he grew with vengeance to take revenge against Devas since their king Indra had cursed his mother. Mahisasura knew that he needed a boon from Lord Brahma. He did a long and pious meditation and tough penance to please Lord Brahma for 1000 years without any food and water. Pleased with his devotion, Lord Brahma granted him a boon that he could not be defeated in battle by anybody and anywhere except by a woman and would die only in the hands of a woman. Mahisasura thought that a woman would never be able to kill him. He became particularly expert in hundreds of illusion and had become haughty on the strength of his boon. He became very powerful and puffed up with vanity on his getting the boon and wanted to obtain sovereignty over the whole universe under his control. Mahisasura was a master Military strategist. His Military strategy deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement, and disposition of forces, and the deception of the enemy. His Grand Strategy differed from tactics, in that strategy refers to the employment of all of a nation's military capabilities through high level and long-term planning, development and procurement to guarantee security or victory. His tactics based on the military science employed to secure objectives defined as part of his military strategy; especially the methods whereby men, equipment, aircraft, ships, and weapons are employed and directed against an enemy. Turvasa, Bhrgu, Yaksus, Matsya, Druhyu, Paktha, Bhalana, Alina, Sigru, and Suda joined Mahisasura to wage a war against heaven. Mahisasura had appointed a senior Warfare Committee along with them. He had asked his very powerful Commander-in-Chief Chiksusa to give his war strategy that would enable them to siege the whole universe and bring it under his supremacy....Read Kanakachala, Kingdom of Shiva Series-2 Sivkishen Ji, Author