Shloka 38
Adhyaya 92 — Devi’s Assurance of Protection and the Fruits of Reciting the Devi Mahatmyam
स्तुता सम्पूजिता पुष्पैर्धूपगन्धादिभिस्तथा ।
ददाति वित्तं पुत्रांश्च मतिं धर्मे गतिं शुभाम् ॥
stutā sampūjitā puṣpair dhūpagandhādibis tathā / dadāti vittaṃ putrāṃś ca matiṃ dharme gatiṃ śubhām
When praised and duly worshiped with flowers, incense, fragrance, and the like, she grants wealth and children, understanding aligned with dharma, and an auspicious course (destiny/afterlife).
FAQs
The highest gift listed is not merely wealth or progeny but dharma-aligned understanding (matiṃ dharme). The verse frames devotion as transformative: ritual offerings culminate in ethical clarity and auspicious direction in life.
Not a genealogical/cosmogonic datum but a dharma-and-phala statement embedded in Manvantara narrative; it supports Sthiti by prescribing worship that stabilizes society and individual conduct.
Flowers/incense symbolize refinement of the senses; when the senses are offered back to their source, the inner ‘mati’ turns dharmic and the ‘gati’ becomes auspicious—outer ritual mirroring inner alignment.