Shloka 36
Adhyaya 82 — The Rise of Mahishasura and the Manifestation of the Goddess from the Gods’ Tejas
आः किमेतदिति क्रोधादाभाष्य महिषासुरः ।
अभ्यधावत तं शब्दमशेषैरसुरैर्वृतः ॥
āḥ kim etad iti krodhād ābhāṣya mahiṣāsuraḥ |
abhyadhāvata taṃ śabdam aśeṣair asurair vṛtaḥ ||
“Ah! Apakah ini?”—demikian katanya dengan murka; Mahishasura menerpa ke arah bunyi itu, dikelilingi oleh semua asura.
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FAQs
The asuric response to the unknown is anger and aggression, not inquiry and discernment. The verse critiques krodha as the reflex that propels beings into self-destruction.
It belongs to narrative carita (episode of divine intervention), not to cosmological enumeration. Such episodes function as dharma-illustrations within the Purāṇic corpus.
‘Rushing toward the sound’ symbolizes consciousness chasing external stimuli; when driven by anger, it moves toward bondage. The ‘sound’ can be read as the call of Śakti that the unpurified psyche misinterprets as threat.