Devi Adi Parashakti

Devi Adi Parashakti is a mythological television series based on the Hindu texts of the Shiva Purana, the Devi-Bhagavata Purana, the Markandeya Purana, and pan-Indian folktales of the Goddess. The series was created by Siddharth Kumar Tewary, directed by Loknath Pandey and Manish Singh, and produced by Swastik Productions. Rati Pandey plays the role of Devi Adi Parashakti and her incarnations Goddess Sati, and Goddess Parvati.^[1] Tarun Khanna played the role of Devi's husband, Lord Shiva with Kanan Malhotra as Lord Vishnu, Devi's brother. The show also features Sonia Singh as Goddess Diti, the main antagonist.

The serial first aired on February 10, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown in India, the show was delayed.^[2][3] The Season 1 of this show started airing once again on November 9, 2020, and ended on December 26, 2020 in Dangal TV.

Plot[]

The show portrays the Leelas of Hindu goddess Adi Parashakti, the wife of Shiva and sister of Vishnu in her avatars as the Sati and later Parvati.

Season 1[]

The story begins with Shiva's questions on The Self and how he discovers that it was the Supreme Goddess Adi Parashakti who created him, Vishnu, and Brahma. She reveals herself after Shiva destroys Brahma's arrogance and imparts true wisdom of who She is to the Tridevas. She then assumes three different forms: Saraswati - who weds Brahma, Lakshmi - who weds Vishnu, and Shakti - who becomes Shiva's beloved, and resides with them in their respective abodes.

In the course of time, an Asura named Tarakasura, a son of Diti obtains a boon from Brahma that he would only be killed by the offspring of Shiva. Thinking of himself as immortal in light of Shiva becoming a hermit after Sati's death, he displaces the Devas, the mortal enemies of the Asuras, from the heavens. The show then solely focuses on Shakti's journey from Kailasha to Earth as Sati, the daughter of Daksha, who separates Shiva and Shakti. After Sati discovers Shiva, who Daksha disapproves of and abhors, she falls in love with him. Daksha gives up Sati, and she moves to Kailasha where Shiva and Sati's marriage ceremony starts. But, Tarakasura and his asuras sent by Diti, polluted the marriage yagna fire. But, Lord Shiva and Sati's marriage takes place without any ceremony and this type of marriage is named as Gandharva marriage and Sati's bride avatar is named as Kalyanasundari.

In an attempt to humiliate Shiva and Sati, Daksha performs a Yajna inviting the residents of all the realms, with the sole exceptions being the residents of Kailasha. Sati, however, goes to the Yajna, where she is humiliated. As a result, she immolates herself in the presence of all those gathered. Angry, Shiva and Shakti kill Daksha, thus avenging Sati by assuming the terrible forms of Veerabhadra and Kali . Later on, Daksha is resurrected. Sati's body is cut up into fifty-two pieces - which become Shakti Peethas, and a sorrowful Shiva isolates himself in the caves of the Amarnath.

At the behest of Vishnu, then Devi takes birth once again as Parvati the daughter of the Himavat and Mainavati. She was named by Vishnu in his disguise as a doctor by the name Shailaputri who is the daughter (putri) of King of mountains (Shaila) and by her parents as Parvati who is the daughter of King of Parvat (Mountain).

She too, just like in her previous life as Sati, falls in love with Shiva. She finds him in the caves of her father's kingdom and sits at his feet, meditating upon him. In a rush to awaken Shiva so that he would fall in love with Devi again and have a son who could kill Tarakasura, the Devas deploy Kama, the God of Love, who is burnt to ashes by Shiva for disturbing his trance.

Shiva, although aware of Parvati's devotion and love towards him, behaves indifferently to her. When she tries to speak to him, he informs her that only after she passes some of his tests, would she obtain the desire of her heart. Parvati agrees to his challenge, and Shiva puts her through various trials, in Kashi and in Kailasha, all of which she passes. This impresses Shiva, who agrees to marry her and gets the name of Brahmacharini one who done a great penance. Then the marriage ceremony starts. Devi Parvati decorates herself as bride with the name Sundareshwari while Shiva arrives the ceremony as Aghori due to Rishi Durvasa's curse. To perform the Equilibrium Jewelry ritual and to remove the curse from Daksha to Lord Chandra, Shiva keeps Chandra in his head and Devi Parvati takes the avatar of Chandraghanta. When Himavat and Mainavati sees Shiva as Aghori, they refuse for the marriage. Then according to the idea of Parvati, Shiva was dressed as Sundareshwar with the help of Vishnu. Then the marriage of Shiva and Parvati occurs. Parvati learns about who she really is with the help of Shiva and takes the avatar of Kushmanda one who is the goddess of cosmos.

Then Devi arranges a feast in Kailash where all Devas are invited. There Devas get satisfied with the food prepared by Devi and Devi assures that Tarakasura will be surely slayed by hers and Shiva's child. Then Devi takes the avatar of Annapurna.

Meanwhile, Tarakasura threatens the devas by capturing Deva Lok. So Parvati and Shiva do a penance together, which results in the birth of a son. The personified power generated from the ritual penance takes physical form as a power-ball, despite opposition by Tarakasura an. To slay Bhandasura who tries to kill Kartikeya, Devi Parvathi takes the form of Lalitha and slays him with the acceptance of Rati. But by the act of Bhandasura, the power ball turned six pieces that turned into six children which was caught by Kartikai ladies in Kartikai loka. To test Kartikai ladies' love towards the children, Parvati takes the disguise as Devi Kartika and tests them. As Kartikai ladies have passed the tested and Kartikai loka is safer that Kailash, she left her child with them and reunited all the six children into Kartikeya or Skanda and she got the name of Skandamata.

After this, they are threatened by the demon duos Shumbha and Nishumbha, another sons of Diti. Shumbha falls in love with Parvati. He orders Chanda and Munda to bring her to the netherworld. Angered by this, Parvati changes into Kali, her untamed warrior form with the help of the Ashta matrikas. Then as Kali, she slays Chanda-Munda and gets the name of Chamundeshwari.

Infuriated Shumbha asks the help from Diti, who sends Raktabija and Devi Kali kills him and drinks his blood. To calm Devi Kali, Lord Shiva falls in the path of her. Kali steps on him and realises her mistake. To get sorrow, she sacrifices all her powers and isolates herself in a cave where she gets sorrow with the help of sage Markandeya and who indeed helps him for writing Markandeya Purana.

To bring Parvati to netherworld, Nishumbha comes to the cave. To kill Nishumbha, Parvati takes the form of Devi Kaushiki and kills him. Then she returns to Kailash where Devas give her a great welcoming ceremony and gives her the name of Mahagauri.

Parvati takes the form of Kalaratri to corner Shumbha and in her original divine form, she kills Shumbha. This is a huge shock to Diti. Then Kartikeya gets his adult age and to complete his purpose for birth, he goes to Kailash from Kartikai loka for learning the art of war from his real mother Parvati. Initially, he hated his mother. Parvati takes the form of Katyayani from the yagna in sage Katyayana's ashram and kills Mahishasur in order to save the inhabitants of Dev Lok and Kartikeya .Now, Kartikeya is happy with his mother. After all the failed plans, Tarakasura gives a last chance for his mother Diti to kill Kartikeya or else he himself have to go and have to kill him. Devi Parvati teaches Kartikeya about the rules of war i.e. to not kill a person who is weapon-less. Then the people in earth invite Devi Katyayani for celebrating her victory over Mahishasur. There Diti plots a plan against Kartikeya to make him break the rule of war taught by Devi Parvati. According to her plan, Kartikeya was brought away from the celebration into the forest were that demon hurts Kartikeya by scolding Parvati. Caught in that plan, Kartikeya kills the weapon-less demon. Infuriated Parvati, asks Kartikeya to learn the art of war by his own. Then Kartikeya realises his mistake and prepares a Shivalinga and prays to it. Then, Shiva and Parvati appear there and apologised him.

Then Kartikeya returns to Kailash. On the other hand, after the fall of Diti's plan, Tarakasura arranges a battle in Kailash. Upto Kartikeya learning the art of war, Devas are compelled to manage the battle. So, Lord Shiva sends his Veerabhadra avatar for fighting against Tarakasura. Finally, Kartikeya learns the art of war and battle from his mother Parvati, and succeeds in killing Tarakasura.

Diti realises her mistakes and finally surrenders to Devi. Everyone assembles in Kailash where the devas including Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma and the demons including Diti perform the ritual of Maha Aarti to Devi. The first season ends with Devi attaining her form of Siddhidhatri and giving blessings to everyone.

Stories[]

Season 1[]

• Prapancha srishti adhyaya
• Devi Sati ki katha adhyaya
• Daksha yagna adhyaya
• Devi Parvati ki katha adhyaya
• Kama dahana adhyaya
• Shiva-Parvati vivah adhyaya
• Devi Annapurna adhyay
• Lalitha Tripura Sundari and Bhandasur ki vadh adhyay
• Chamunda and Chanda Munda ki vadh adhyaya
• Kali and Raktabija ki vadh adhyaya
• Kaushiki and Nishumbha ki vadh adhyay
• Kalratri and Shumbha ki vadh adhyay
• Katyayani and Mahishasura ki vadh adhyaya
• Kartikeya aur Tarakasur ki vadh adhyay
• Devi Siddhidhartri adhyay

Season 2[]

• Ganesha Janm adhyay
• Ganesha aur Mooshika adhyay
• Matsya avatar adhyay
• Samudra Manthan adhyay
• Mahavidya adhyay
• Prithu avatar adhyay
• Gangaur Katha adhyay
• Devi Bhramari adhyay
• Devi Shakambhari adhyay
• Kartikeya vivah adhyay
• Ganesha Leela adhyay
• Hayagriva avatar adhyay
• Varaha aur Narasimha adhyay
• Devi Meenakshi aur Devi Mhalsa adhyay
• Devi Raktadantika adhyay
• Vamana avatar adhyay
• Devi Kamakhya aur Devi Shitala adhyay
• Ayyappa Swamy adhyay
• Devi Mookambika adhyay
• Devi Yellamma adhyay
• Sri Ramalinga Sowdeswari Amman adhyay
• Vaishno Devi adhyay
• Satyanarayan Puja Katha adhyay
• Tripurantaka adhyay
• Pancha Bhoota Sthala adhyay
• Devi Hinglaj Mata adhyay
• Satyavan aur Savitri adhyay
• Bahuchara Mata adhyay
• Devi Manasa adhyay
• Bhagwan Sri Ram aur Bhagwan Sri Krishna adhyay

Cast[]

• Rati Pandey as Adi Parashakti:
  • Sati, Durga, Bhadrakali, Parvati, Annapurna, Kaushiki, Bhramaramba
  • Nava Durga: Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyanani, Kalaratri, Mahagauri, Siddhidhatri
  • Ashta Matrika: Brahmani, Vaishnavi, Raudri, Ambika, Indrani, Varahi, Chamunda, Narsimhi
  • Dasa Mahavidya: Mahakali, Tara, Lalitha, Chinnamasta, Baglamukhi, Dhumavati, Matangi
• Tarun Khanna as Mahadev/Veerabhadra/Kaal Bhairava/Ardhanarishvara
• Kanan Malhotra as Vishnu/Satyanarayan
• Sonia Singh as Diti
• Richa Dixit as Lakshmi
• Deepak Dutta as Brahma
• Nisha Nagpal/Sangeeta Odwani as Saraswati
• Krish Chauhan as Kartikeya
• Deepali Saini as Menavati
• Yogesh Mahajan as Himavan
• Raj Premi as Prajapati Daksha
• Heer Malik as Prasuti
• Raja Kapse as Markandeya
• Vinit Kakar as Raktabija
• Shalini Vishnudev as Aditi
• Kunal Bakshi as Indra
• Sonia Sharma as Sachi
• Ajay Mishra as Narada
• Himanshu Bamzai as Mahishasura
• Nimai Bali as Shukracharya
• Saif Ullah Rahmani as Tarkasura
• Rohhit Parshuram as Bandasura
• Kanishka Soni as Devi Ganga
• Naman Rupa Mukuil as Nandi
• Poonam Rao as Revati
• Danika Singh as Bahurupa
• Aleya Ghosh/Dharshna Sripal as Bhudevi
• Sandeep Arora as Kaamdev
• Harsha Khandeparkar as Devi Rati
• Ujjwal Sharma as Varun
• Sumit Tiwari as Vayu
• Deepesh Gangawat as Agni
• Sanjay Sharma as Surya
• Govind Sharma/Raju Makwana as Shiv Gan

Dubbed versions[]

The first season of this serial is dubbed by the HD Channels of Sun TV Network:

• Into Malayalam as Aadiparasakthi aired in Surya TV from 17 August 2020 to 1 January 2021.
• Into Tamil as Devi Aadiparashakti aired in Sun TV from 27 July 2020 to 13 February 2021.
• Into Telugu as Devi Aadhi Parasakthi aired in Gemini TV from 14 September 2020 to 23 January 2021.
• Into Kannada as Devi Aadi Paraashakthi aired in Udaya TV from 21 September 2020 to 9 January 2021.

Production[]

Development[]

Series' title[]

The show was originally planned to be called Devi but later it was changed to Devi Aadi Parashakti. It is still referred to in short as Devi.

Music and Background Score composed by Lenin Nandi & Shaam Chettri.

Casting[]

The show casts actors who have already been famous for their mythological characters. Tarun Khanna who played Shiva in Swastik's RadhaKrishn and Karmaphal Daata Shani reprises his role in the show. Rohit Khurana who played Shani in Swastik's Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai and Karmaphal Daata Shani reprises his role in the show. Kanan Malhotra who played the role of Vishnu in Swastik's Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai also reprises his role. Kunal Bakshi who played the role of Indra in Swastik's Karmphal Daata Shani, also reprises his role. The makers have recast actors who have already been associated with Swastik Productions such as Rati Pandey, Nimai Bali and Saurabh Raj Jain (as narrator).

When the Young/child casts who played already been famous for different mythological. Krish Chauhan already starring in Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai and Ram Siya Ki Luv Kush when this show is his third mythological show.

Meanwhile, this serial's some casts was replaced. Aleya Ghosh replaced by Dharshna Sripal Golecha and Sanjay Sharma replaced by Salil Ankola.

Broadcast[]

The first season of this show aired on Dangal TV on 10 February 2020, but the telecast was stopped in the last week of March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show made a return on November 9, 2020.

References[]

External links[]

• Devi Adi Parashakti at IMDb
• Official Dangal TV Website