Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
इति क्रोधसमाध्मातमापतान्तं महासुरम् ।
दृष्ट्वा सा चण्डिका कोपं तद्वधाय तदाकरोत् ॥
iti krodhasamādhmātamāpatāntaṃ mahāsuram /
dṛṣṭvā sā caṇḍikā kopaṃ tadvadhāya tadākarot
その大アスラが怒りに膨れ、猛然と突進して来るのを見て、チャンディカー(Caṇḍikā)は彼を討つため忿怒の相を現した。
The text distinguishes asuric anger (self-driven destruction) from divine ‘kopa’ as a controlled, purpose-bound force used for loka-rakṣā (protection of the worlds).
Carita: exemplary divine intervention narrative rather than cosmogenesis or genealogy.
Caṇḍikā’s ‘wrath’ symbolizes transformed energy—raw affect is sublimated into śakti that cuts through obstruction (avidyā/tamas) rather than multiplying it.