अथांतरिक्षगा देवी तस्य मार्गणमध्यगा । विद्युन्मालेव विबभौ महाभ्रपटलीधृता
athāṃtarikṣagā devī tasya mārgaṇamadhyagā | vidyunmāleva vibabhau mahābhrapaṭalīdhṛtā
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Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame implied)
Scene: Devī suspended in mid-air, centered within a storm of arrows; behind her a vast dark cloud-bank, yet she gleams like a lightning garland—white-blue radiance outlining her form, weapons, and ornaments.
The Divine remains luminous even amid danger; dharma’s light is not extinguished by the weapons of adharma.
Kāśī’s māhātmya is supported through imagery of the Goddess’s victorious presence within its sacred narrative cycle.
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