तस्य चापततस्तूर्णं खड्गं द्वाभ्यां ह्यकृन्तयत् । शराभ्यामर्धबाणेन प्रहस्य प्रासमेव च
tasya cāpatatastūrṇaṃ khaḍgaṃ dvābhyāṃ hyakṛntayat | śarābhyāmardhabāṇena prahasya prāsameva ca
वह जब वेग से उस पर झपटा, तब देवी ने दो बाणों से उसकी तलवार काट दी; और हँसते हुए बाणों तथा आधे बाण से उसका भाला भी गिरा दिया।
Narrator
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (rājan / bhūpa addressed)
Scene: A Devī-archer intercepts a charging dānava: two arrows shear his sword mid-swing; with a half-arrow and additional shafts she shatters his spear, smiling in fearless mastery.
Dharma not only defeats aggression but disarms it—removing the means by which harm is done.
No; this is a tactical moment in the Arbuda-khaṇḍa battle narrative.
None.