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Lilavati to take rebirth as Mahishi 

On the day of Vasant Panchami, when the sage Narada was singing in praises of Anasuya, the Chaste wife of Maharishi Atri, then Goddess Sarswati became apprehensive hearing that, Goddess Lakshmi became possessive, and Goddess Adi Shakti became skeptical. All three of them decided to test the chastity of Anasuya. They wanted Trinity to lure her in a way where there was a great scope to tempt her away from her husband. The Divine Trinity went to Anasuya as guests when Maharishi Atri was not at home, and asked for alms and the condition was that she should be naked while giving the alms. She agreed, but she first splashed them each with enchanted water, turned them into infants and gave them the sweetness of motherhood. Meanwhile the Goddesses waited for their consorts to return. When much time passed away, they worried about their husbands and then they reached to the hermitage of Maharishi Atri. To their surprise, they found them transformed as infants. The goddesses repented for that and requested her, to bring them in their actual forms. Anasuya then asked for a boon that she needs a son who would be the incarnation of Trinity. Therefore, a son was born to Anasuya and Maharishi Atri as Dattatreya and the three Goddesses took a birth as Lilavati. Both Dattatreya and Lilavati got married each other.

When Dattatreya has started coming for attaining bliss, an argument happened between Lilavati and Dattatreya regarding illusion and bliss. Dattatreya became angry and cursed Lilavati to take rebirth as Mahishi. She took birth in the divine womb of our mother Syamala.

You should know that that Devi is Mahishi to vindicate and redress Harihara, the combined form of both Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. 

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