Shloka 42
Adhyaya 85 — The Gods’ Hymn to the Goddess and the Emergence of Kaushiki; Shumbha Sends His Envoy
स्तोत्रं ममैैतत् क्रियते शुम्भदैत्यनिराकृतैः ।
देवैः समेतैः समरे निशुम्भेन पराजितैः ॥
stotraṃ mamaitat kriyate śumbhadaityanirākṛtaiḥ / devaiḥ sametaiḥ samare niśumbhena parājitaiḥ
‘یہ میرا ستوتر ہے جسے جمع ہوئے دیوتا پڑھ رہے ہیں—وہ جو دَیتّیہ شُمبھ سے نجات پا چکے ہیں، اور وہ جو جنگ میں نِشُمبھ کے ہاتھوں شکست کھا چکے تھے۔’
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FAQs
The hymn arises from lived crisis and deliverance: gratitude after rescue becomes sacred speech. Ethically, it valorizes remembrance of help received and communal worship after collective suffering.
Narrative (ākhyāna) within the Devī Māhātmya section. It is not sarga/manvantara/vaṃśa material; its function is to authenticate the stuti and situate it in the Śumbha-Niśumbha episode.
Śumbha-Niśumbha can be read as twin forces of egoic appropriation and aggressive negation; the Devī’s victory and the ensuing stotra represent the return of speech (vāk) to devotion rather than self-assertion.