Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 88, 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
At muli, nang masugatan ang kanyang ulo sa hampas ng vajra (kulog) at umagos ang dugo, mula roon ay may mga lalaking isinilang nang libu-libo.
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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).