Shloka 22
Adhyaya 90 — The Slaying of Shumbha and the Reabsorption of the Goddesses into Ambika
तमायान्तं ततो देवी सर्वदैत्यजनेश्वरम् ।
जगत्यां पातयामास भित्त्वा शूलेन वक्षसि ॥
tam āyāntaṃ tato devī sarva-daitya-janeśvaram /
jagatyāṃ pātayāmāsa bhittvā śūlena vakṣasi
அப்போது தேவி, பூமியில் அணுகி வந்த அனைத்து தைத்யக் கூட்டங்களின் தலைவனை, தன் சூலத்தால் மார்பைத் துளைத்து நிலத்தில் வீழ்த்தினாள்।
FAQs
When destructive intent becomes irredeemable, the righteous response is decisive and proportionate; Devī’s act is not cruelty but the restoration of safety for the world.
An exemplary episode (vaṃśānucarita/itihāsa mode) embedded in Manvantara narration—showing how divine agency stabilizes an age.
Piercing the ‘chest’ indicates breaking the seat of hardened self-assertion; the śūla signifies penetrating discriminative power that ends inner tyranny.