Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 82, Shloka 68
Adhyaya 82 — The Rise of Mahishasura and the Manifestation of the Goddess from the Gods’ Tejas
क्षणेन तन्महासैन्यमसुराणां तथाम्बिका ।
निन्ये क्षयं यथा वह्निस्तृणदारुमहाचयम् ॥
kṣaṇena tanmahāsainyamasurāṇāṃ tathāmbikā / ninye kṣayaṃ yathā vahnistṛṇadārumahācayam
क्षण भर में ही अम्बिका ने उस विशाल असुर-सेना का संहार कर दिया—जैसे अग्नि घास और लकड़ी के बड़े ढेर को भस्म कर देती है।
FAQs
Dharma’s restoring force can be swift when the time is ripe; the simile teaches that entrenched wrongdoing, however massive, is fragile before awakened divine power.
Anucarita within Manvantara: a paradigmatic episode portraying the protection of the worlds and the defeat of asuric forces.
Fire represents jñāna/tejas; the ‘heap of grass and wood’ is accumulated saṃskāra and egoic momentum—burned instantly when Śakti manifests as illuminating power.