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
مبارک دیوی نے فرمایا— چونکہ تُو چنڈ اور مُنڈ کو پکڑ کر آئی ہے، اس لیے اے دیوی، دنیا میں تُو ‘چامُنڈا’ کے نام سے مشہور ہوگی۔
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.