Adhyaya 88 — The Manifestation of the Matrikas and the Slaying of Raktabija
भक्षयन्ती चर रणॆ तदुत्पन्नान् महासुरान् ।
एवमेष क्षयं दैत्यः क्षीणरक्तो गमिष्यति ।
भक्ष्यमाणास्त्वया चोग्रा न चोत्पत्स्यन्ति चापरे ॥
bhakṣayantī cara raṇe tadutpannān mahāsurān | evameṣa kṣayaṃ daityaḥ kṣīṇarakto gamiṣyati | bhakṣyamāṇās tvayā cogrā na cotpatsyanti cāpare ||
യുദ്ധഭൂമിയിൽ സഞ്ചരിച്ച് അവിടെ നിന്നുയരുന്ന മഹാസുരന്മാരെ ഭക്ഷിക്കൂ. ഇങ്ങനെ ഈ ദൈത്യൻ രക്തക്ഷയത്തോടെ നാശം പ്രാപിക്കും. നീ ആ ഭീകരരെ തിന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ മറ്റാർക്കും ഉദ്ഭവമുണ്ടാകില്ല.
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Durable resolution comes from draining the fuel of the problem. The verse teaches a dharmic pragmatism: remove the sustaining resource of adharma rather than endlessly fighting its symptoms.
A devotional battle episode (upākhyāna) serving as a didactic myth within the Purāṇa, not a pancalakṣaṇa segment.
‘Blood exhausted’ points to the depletion of rajas-driven momentum. When the generative rajas is absorbed by the fierce transforming power (Kālī/Cāmuṇḍā), further proliferations cease.