Adhyaya 88 — The Manifestation of the Matrikas and the Slaying of Raktabija
भक्षयन्ती चर रणॆ तदुत्पन्नान् महासुरान् ।
एवमेष क्षयं दैत्यः क्षीणरक्तो गमिष्यति ।
भक्ष्यमाणास्त्वया चोग्रा न चोत्पत्स्यन्ति चापरे ॥
bhakṣayantī cara raṇe tadutpannān mahāsurān | evameṣa kṣayaṃ daityaḥ kṣīṇarakto gamiṣyati | bhakṣyamāṇās tvayā cogrā na cotpatsyanti cāpare ||
रणभूमौ विचर, तत्रोत्पद्यमानान् महाऽसुरान् भक्षय। एवं स राक्षसो रक्तक्षयात् विनाशं गमिष्यति। त्वया तान् घोरान् भक्ष्यमाणेषु, अन्ये नोत्पत्स्यन्ति।
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Durable resolution comes from draining the fuel of the problem. The verse teaches a dharmic pragmatism: remove the sustaining resource of adharma rather than endlessly fighting its symptoms.
A devotional battle episode (upākhyāna) serving as a didactic myth within the Purāṇa, not a pancalakṣaṇa segment.
‘Blood exhausted’ points to the depletion of rajas-driven momentum. When the generative rajas is absorbed by the fierce transforming power (Kālī/Cāmuṇḍā), further proliferations cease.