Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 89, Shloka 16
Adhyaya 89 — The Wrath of Shumbha and Nishumbha and the Fall of Nishumbha
स रथस्थस्तथात्युच्चैर्गृहीतपरमायुधैः ।
भुजैरष्टाभिरतुलैर्व्याप्याशेषं बभौ नभः ॥
sa ratha-sthas tathātyuccair gṛhīta-paramāyudhaiḥ |
bhujair aṣṭābhir atulair vyāpyāśeṣaṃ babhau nabhaḥ ||
他端坐战车之上，高举至上兵器，以八臂无双充塞穹宇，光辉照彻天际。
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FAQs
Asuric power often manifests as spectacle—expansive display meant to intimidate. The Purana contrasts such outward magnitude with the Devi’s inner sovereignty, implying that true authority is not measured by show but by alignment with dharma.
Narrative exemplum; it supports moral-theological teaching rather than serving as a cosmological or genealogical register.
‘Pervading the sky’ can symbolize the mind overwhelmed by a grandiose ego-identity. The many arms and weapons reflect proliferating strategies of control; the Devi’s role is to re-center reality in the non-inflated ground of truth.