Bhramari

In Purāṇic accounts (notably summaries of the Lakshmi Tantra and the Devi Bhagavata Purana), when the daitya Arunasura seized celestial offices and threatened the three worlds, the supreme goddess (Mahādevī/Adi Shakti) manifested in a specialized bee‑form. She incorporated or emanated innumerable bees and related insects, appeared at the foot of Kailasha, and with the swarms destroyed the asura, rescuing the worlds. The Lakshmi Tantra describes a prophetic appearance in which the goddess appears in bee‑form to slay Aruṇa and thereafter is praised as Bhrāmarī.

Texts describe Bhramari as a massive theomorphic form in which innumerable bees and related insects (bees, hornets, wasps, flies, termites, mosquitoes and spiders in the Purāṇic summaries) emanate from her hands, crawl over her body, and merge with her to constitute her visible form. The Devi Bhagavata Purana tradition notes she grew to enormous size and that her three eyes shone with the radiance of the sun, the moon, and the eternal fire Agni.

Bhramari summons, emanates, and commands innumerable bees and similar insects, using them as a weapon to swarm, stab, dismember and defeat the demon Arunasura and his forces. In Purāṇic narrative she performs a cosmic, martial role—restoring celestial order when the gods could not. Her name and imagery are also linked in practice contexts to the yogic breathing technique Bhramari pranayama (the humming 'bee' breath), which shares a sonic/embodied association with the deity's bee‑like buzz in later yogic sources.