The Description of the Four Durgā Mantras
भानुमण्डलसंस्थानां प्रविकीर्णालकं शिरः । छिन्नं स्वकं स्फारमुखं स्वरक्तं प्रपिबद्गलत् ॥ ७ ॥
bhānumaṇḍalasaṃsthānāṃ pravikīrṇālakaṃ śiraḥ | chinnaṃ svakaṃ sphāramukhaṃ svaraktaṃ prapibadgalat || 7 ||
سورج کے ہالے کی مانند، بکھرے ہوئے بالوں والا، اپنے ہی جسم سے کٹا ہوا اور کھلے منہ والا سر، بہتے ہوئے اپنے ہی خون کو پی رہا تھا۔
Narada (narration within a technical/illustrative passage; dialogue frame traditionally with Sanatkumara)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: bibhatsa
The verse uses a stark, fearful image—self-consuming violence—to illustrate the destructive momentum of adharma and the karmic consequences that can overwhelm a being when restraint and right conduct collapse.
By portraying the horror of self-harm driven by uncontrolled forces, it implicitly points to bhakti and dharma as stabilizing refuges—turning the mind toward Vishnu-centered discipline rather than toward impulses that “consume one’s own life-blood.”
In the Third Pada’s technical tone, such imagery aligns with Jyotiṣa-style omen language: vivid forms (sun-disc likeness, dishevelled hair, blood-drinking) function as diagnostic symbols to warn of inauspicious conditions and the need for corrective dharmic action.