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Mohini

Mohini (Sanskrit: मोहिनी, Mohinī) is the Hindu goddess of enchantment.  She is the only female avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.  She is portrayed as a femme fatale, an enchantress, who maddens lovers and demons, sometimes leading them to their doom.

Mohini is introduced into Hinduism in the narrative epic of the Mahabharata.  Here, she appears as a form of Vishnu following the Churning of the Ocean, a mesmerising beauty who distributes the amrita (the elixir of immortality) to the weakened devas (gods) and depriving it to the dominant asuras (demons), allowing the former to defeat the latter with their newfound immortality.


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