Shloka 1
Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयमहापुराणे सावर्णिके मन्वन्तरे देवीमाहात्म्ये महिषासुरसैन्यवधो नाम द्व्यशीतितमोऽध्यायः ।
ऋषिरुवाच— निहन्यमानं तत्सैन्यमवलोक्य महासुरः ।
सेनानीश्चिक्षुरः कोपाद्ययौ योद्धुमथाम्बिकाम् ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyamahāpurāṇe sāvarṇike manvantare devīmāhātmye mahiṣāsurasainyavadho nāma dvyaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ | ṛṣiruvāca nihanyamānaṃ tatsainyamavalākya mahāsuraḥ / senānīścikṣuraḥ kopādyayau yoddhumathāmbikām
अशा प्रकारे श्रीमार्कण्डेय महापुराणातील सावर्णि मन्वंतरातील देवीमाहात्म्यात ‘महिषासुरसेनावध’ नावाचा बयाऐंशीवा अध्याय समाप्त झाला. ऋषी म्हणाले—आपली सेना मारली जात आहे असे पाहून महान असुर सेनापती चिक्षुर क्रोधाने अंबिकेशी युद्ध करण्यास निघाला.
FAQs
When collective wrongdoing collapses, its leadership often responds with anger rather than reflection; the verse sets up the moral pattern of adharma doubling down and meeting decisive defeat.
Manvantara (explicitly named) with Anucarita (episode narrative). The colophon anchors the story within purāṇic time-structuring.
The ‘general’ represents the organizing intellect of ego (ahaṃkāra’s strategy); once the mass of tendencies is cut down, the controlling node confronts Śakti directly—and is undone.