Shloka 26
Adhyaya 87 — The Slaying of Dhumralochana and the Emergence of Kali; the Fall of Chanda and Munda (Chamunda Named)
श्रीदेव्युवाच यस्माच्चण्डं च मुण्डं च गृहीत्वा त्वमुपागता । चामुण्डेति ततो लोके ख्याता देवि भविष्यसि ॥
śrīdevy uvāca yasmāc caṇḍaṃ ca muṇḍaṃ ca gṛhītvā tvam upāgatā / cāmuṇḍeti tato loke khyātā devi bhaviṣyasi
భగవతి దేవి పలికెను— నీవు చండ ముండులను పట్టుకొని వచ్చితివి; అందుచేత, ఓ దేవీ, లోకములో నీవు ‘చాముండా’ అనే నామముతో ప్రసిద్ధి పొందుదువు।
FAQs
A name here is not mere label but recognition of function: the epithet ‘Cāmuṇḍā’ memorializes the removal of specific destructive forces, teaching that spiritual power is known by the harms it ends and the order it restores.
Anucarita within Manvantara: exemplary divine action narrated within a manvantara setting; it is not Sarga/Pratisarga but a dharma-protecting episode embedded in the Purāṇic time-cycle.
‘Caṇḍa’ and ‘Muṇḍa’ can be read as personifications of brutal aggression and headless/ego-less frenzy; Devī’s power that ‘seizes’ them signifies mastery over violent impulses, culminating in a stabilized, worshippable form—Cāmuṇḍā.