Shloka 53
Adhyaya 82 — The Rise of Mahishasura and the Manifestation of the Goddess from the Gods’ Tejas
निश्वसान्मुमुचे यांश्च युध्यमाना रणेऽम्बिका ।
त एव सद्यः सम्भूता गणाः शतसहस्रशः ॥
niśvasānmumuce yāṃśca yudhyamānā raṇe 'mbikā / ta eva sadyaḥ sambhūtā gaṇāḥ śatasahasraśaḥ
रणे यान् अम्बिका निःश्वासैः ससर्ज त एव क्षणात् शतसहस्रशो गणाः समभवन्।
FAQs
When dharma is defended, support arises from the very power of the divine—help is not merely external; it unfolds naturally from the source when the cause is righteous.
Though it uses creation imagery (emanation of gaṇas), it is not the cosmological ‘sarga’ of the Purāṇa; it is localized, mythic emanation within an ākhyāna.
Breath (niśvāsa) is prāṇa: from the Goddess’s prāṇa arise auxiliary powers—suggesting that when inner life-force is aligned, manifold capacities (gaṇas) manifest spontaneously.