Shloka 40
Adhyaya 83 — The Slaying of Mahishasura’s Armies and the Final Death of Mahishasura
अर्धनिष्क्रान्त एवासौ युध्यमानो महासुरः ।
तया महासिना देव्याः शिरश्छित्त्वा निपातितः ॥
ardhaniṣkrānta evāsau yudhyamāno mahāsuraḥ / tayā mahāsinā devyāḥ śiraś chittvā nipātitaḥ
ابھی آدھا ہی ظاہر ہو کر بھی لڑتا ہوا وہ عظیم اسُر دیوی نے اپنی عظیم تلوار سے اس کا سر کاٹ کر گرا دیا۔
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FAQs
The ‘head’ represents command and conceit; dharma’s victory is complete only when the root of arrogance is severed, not merely its outward aggression.
Devī-māhātmya upākhyāna; a paradigmatic dharma-restoration episode rather than a cosmological enumeration.
The sword symbolizes discriminative wisdom (viveka) that decisively ends the asuric tendency even mid-struggle—cutting off the ‘seat’ of identification.