Kalkaji mandir

This guide to Kalkaji Mandir in Delhi opens with the Hindu legend of two demons whose spilled blood spawned more demons every time they were struck down, and the goddess Parvati's escalating response. It follows how Kali emerged from that struggle, and how believers say her image appeared here on its own, giving the neighborhood its name. Along the way it traces the shrine's construction by the Marathas in the seventeen sixties and its later expansion under a Mughal-era administrator.