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cursory glance at these earliest deities certainly pays. rather a necessity for
full illumination at this stage. It affords an interesting study as a matter of
fact. If Puranas are probed, we come across several instances of abundant powers
of these deities utilized by devas, manavas and danavas as well. They proved
reliable and discharged their duties to the utmost satisfaction of their
employers. Trouble never persisted, nor peace eluded the grasp of the masters
trusted. The office of Lankini as the Chief Security officer, keeping guard of
the fortified Lanka, stationed at the Mahadwar is a standing proof to the point
in question. Her monstrous shape and awful stature with ferocity exuding from
the every pore of her body was unapproachable and invulnerable to any except the
incarnated daivamsasambhutas. This is from the epic Ramayana and stands a
specimen of the prevalent tradition of employing of dreadful persons to protect
the inhabitants of a place. Not only danavas employed them but the incarnated
too. And the very same epic testifies to the existence of these devathas. It is
recorded that Kusa, the younger son of Sri Rama the seventh in ear nation of Sri
Maha Vishnu, was listening to a pathetic appeals of Ayodhyadevi at a certain
critical period testing her might.
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