Mhasoba
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Mhasoba, pronounced "MUH-SO-BAA", is a horned buffalo deity of pastoral tribes in Western and Southern India.[1][2][3] In Maharashtra, many Gawlis (tribes making their living cow-herding and by selling milk and milk products) have been worshipping this deity for hundreds of years. [4]
Mhasoba is sometime connected with Shiva,[2] who may have been a pre-Hindu deity adopted by Brahmin/Hindu culture. In the Mhasoba cult of Maharashtra, Mhasoba (Mahisha/Mahesha, which is another name for Shiva/Shankar) is worshipped with his wife Jogubai (Durga).[5][6]
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- ^ Enthoven, Reginald Edward (1990). The tribes and castes of Bombay, Volume 1. Asian Educational Services. pp. 319. ISBN 9788120606302. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoT6gPrbTp8C&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=mhasoba&source=web&ots=dZ8QxxaBrF&sig=cvKFpZijwm8unuP7yfrvDPGf3f4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=mhasoba&f=false.
- ^ a b Drury, Nevill (2004). The dictionary of the esoteric: 3000 entries on the mystical and occult traditions. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. pp. 285. ISBN 9788120819894. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k-tVr09oq3IC&pg=PA285&dq=Mhasoba+deity+buffalo&hl=en&ei=dzTaTqyDHIb68QOas9TCDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=Mhasoba%20deity%20buffalo&f=false.
- ^ Fuller, Christopher John (2004). The camphor flame: popular Hinduism and society in India. Princeton University Press. pp. 144. ISBN 9780691120485. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=To6XSeBUW3oC&pg=PA144&dq=Mhasoba+deity+buffalo&hl=en&ei=nzHaTqmIAYfY8AOsp8n6DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Mhasoba%20deity%20buffalo&f=false.
- ^ Berkson, Carmel (1995). The divine and demoniac: Mahisa's heroic struggle with Durga. Oxford University Press. pp. 85. ISBN 9780195635553. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1x3fbEC3KnsC&pg=PA90&dq=durga+Maharashtra&hl=en&ei=VUTaTuiOOYri8APl4YnrDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ Berkson; pg. xiii
- ^ Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand (1962). Myth and reality: studies in the formation of Indian culture. Popular Prakashan. pp. 90. ISBN 9788171548705. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1x3fbEC3KnsC&pg=PA90&dq=Mhasoba+durga+Maharashtra&hl=en&ei=BkHaTpHNJYin8QPO1qnRDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Maharastra%20durga&f=false.
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