Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 83, Shloka 11
Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
सोऽपि शक्तिं मुमोचाथ देव्यास्तामम्बिका द्रुतम् ।
हुङ्काराभिहतां भूमौ पातयामास निष्प्रभाम् ॥
so 'pi śaktiṃ mumocātha devyās tām ambikā drutam | huṅkārābhihatāṃ bhūmau pātayāmāsa niṣprabhām ||
ਉਸ ਨੇ ਵੀ ਦੇਵੀ ਵੱਲ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ (ਭਾਲਾ) ਛੱਡੀ; ਪਰ ਅੰਬਿਕਾ ਨੇ ਤੁਰੰਤ ਆਪਣੇ ਹੁੰਕਾਰ ਨਾਲ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਢਾਹ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਉਹ ਨਿਸ਼ਪ੍ਰਭ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਧਰਤੀ ਉੱਤੇ ਡਿੱਗ ਪਈ।
FAQs
Not every threat needs physical counterforce; higher authority can nullify violence at its root. The huṃkāra models the supremacy of inner power (clarity, command) over external weaponry.
Devī-māhātmya: a devotional core illustrating divine śakti, functioning as dharma instruction through narrative rather than as cosmological doctrine.
Huṃkāra is a seed-sound of protection and dissolution. The weapon becoming ‘niṣprabhā’ indicates prāṇa/tejas withdrawn—symbolizing how mantra arrests the momentum of hostile impulses.