Shloka 40
Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
अर्धनिष्क्रान्त एवासौ युध्यमानो महासुरः ।
तया महासिना देव्याः शिरश्छित्त्वा निपातितः ॥
ardhaniṣkrānta evāsau yudhyamāno mahāsuraḥ / tayā mahāsinā devyāḥ śiraś chittvā nipātitaḥ
অর্ধেক উদ্ভূত অবস্থায়ও যুদ্ধ করতে করতে সেই মহা অসুরকে দেবী তাঁর মহাখড়্গে শিরচ্ছেদ করে ভূমিতে ফেললেন।
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FAQs
The ‘head’ represents command and conceit; dharma’s victory is complete only when the root of arrogance is severed, not merely its outward aggression.
Devī-māhātmya upākhyāna; a paradigmatic dharma-restoration episode rather than a cosmological enumeration.
The sword symbolizes discriminative wisdom (viveka) that decisively ends the asuric tendency even mid-struggle—cutting off the ‘seat’ of identification.