Shloka 45
Adhyaya 88 — The Manifestation of the Matrikas and the Slaying of Raktabija
पुनश्च वज्रपातेन क्षतमस्य शिरो यदा ।
ववाऽह रक्तं पुरुषास्ततो जाताः सहस्रशः ॥
punaś ca vajrapātena kṣatam asya śiro yadā / vavāha raktaṃ puruṣās tato jātāḥ sahasraśaḥ
पुनश्च वज्रप्रहारेण तस्य शिरसि विदारिते, रक्तं प्रस्रवति स्म; ततस्तस्माद् रक्तात् सहस्रशो नराः समभवन्।
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FAQs
Escalation can be counterproductive: repeated strikes that ignore the special condition (blood-to-birth) worsen the crisis—teaching adaptive intelligence in confronting entrenched problems.
Not pañcalakṣaṇa content; it is a narrative demonstration of a boon’s operative law.
Head-wounding suggests disturbance at the level of ‘mind’; when mind bleeds into agitation, thoughts multiply rapidly—hence the need for a method that ‘drinks up’ the outflow (later fulfilled by Kālī in the larger episode).