Shloka 16
Adhyaya 90 — The Slaying of Shumbha and the Reabsorption of the Goddesses into Ambika
स मुṣ्टिं पातयामास हृदये दैत्यपुṅ्गवः ।
देव्यास्तं चापि सा देवी तलेनोरस्यताडयत् ॥
sa muṣṭiṃ pātayāmāsa hṛdaye daityapuṅgavaḥ / devyās taṃ cāpi sā devī talenorasy atāḍayat
دَیتیوں میں وہ بیل سا زورآور، اس نے مٹھی سے اس کے سینے پر ضرب لگائی؛ اور دیوی نے بھی اس کے سینے پر اپنی ہتھیلی سے چوٹ ماری۔
FAQs
Dharma is not helpless; even when confronted directly, the divine presence responds with greater, rightful force—showing that protection is immediate, not merely remote.
Carita: a vivid action-unit within the Devi narrative, dramatizing the decisive superiority of Devī.
Chest/heart is the seat of ‘I’-sense and resolve; the Goddess’s palm-strike indicates the overpowering of hardened egoic will by the higher will (icchā-śakti).