Does a new character in a comic constitute an addition to Hinduism?

 

In any case, the character of this comic is well within the framework /formula of goddesses made of deification of sensationally killed non-widow women.

 

These legend-born goddesses or goddesses of mythified legends are huge in number.

 

One of the most well known of them is the goddess Vaasavee Kanyakaa Parameswari having greater significance for the Vaisya community of south India than for others. She immolates heself when a king tries to forcibly marry her.

 

Such goddesses are called pEranTALlu in Telugu and there is a very big number of them in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

 

One difference between the narratives of the living traditions of these goddesses and the present comic under discussion is that there is no death of the victim overtly mentioned here. But going to S'iva and PArvatI can be seen to have a suggestion of that.

 

Regards,

 

Nagaraj