Shloka 8
Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
चिक्षेप च ततस्तत्तु भद्रकाल्यां महासुरः ।
जाज्वल्यमानं तेजोभी रविबिम्बमिवाम्बरात् ॥
cikṣepa ca tatastat tu bhadrakālyāṃ mahāsuraḥ | jājvalyamānaṃ tejobhī ravibimbam ivāmbarāt ||
അപ്പോൾ ആ മഹാസുരൻ തേജസ്സാൽ ജ്വലിക്കുന്ന ത്രിശൂലം ഭദ്രകാളിയിലേക്കു എറിഞ്ഞു—ആകാശത്തിൽ നിന്ന് സൂര്യബിംബം വീഴുന്നതുപോലെ.
FAQs
The asura weaponizes ‘tejas’ (radiance) as terror; the Devi embodies tejas as rightful cosmic authority. The lesson: power is not merely intensity—its moral alignment determines its fruit.
This is not sarga/pratisarga; it is a theologically central māhātmya episode that reinforces the Purana’s dharma function through sacred narrative.
The ‘sun-disc from the sky’ image signals an attempt to invert cosmic order (as though the sun falls). Bhadrakali represents the stabilizing śakti that prevents such inversion.