Shloka 20
Adhyaya 89 — The Wrath of Shumbha and Nishumbha and the Fall of Nishumbha
ततः काली समुत्पत्य गगनं क्ष्मामताडयत् ।
कराभ्यां तन्निनादेन प्राक्स्वनास्ते तिरोधिताḥ ॥
tataḥ kālī samutpatya gaganaṃ kṣmāmatāḍayat / karābhyāṃ tanninādena prāksvanāste tirohitāḥ
अथ काली समुत्पत्य नभो भूमिं च ताडयत्; तयोः करयोः स्तनितेन पूर्वनादाः समन्ततः प्लाविताः।
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FAQs
When adharma becomes entrenched, a fiercer remedial force manifests. Kālī represents uncompromising purification—what is needed to end violence and delusion when gentler measures fail.
Narrative (ākhyāna/vaṃśānucarita-type) used as dharma-teaching through divine exemplum, not a direct pancalakṣaṇa catalog section.
Kālī’s ‘eclipsing sound’ indicates the overpowering of mental noise by a deeper, transformative power—dissolving prior vṛttis (habitual patterns) so insight can prevail.