Candishataka 5

5

devītriśūlāhatamahiṣajuṣo devītriśūlakṛtacchidramahiṣaśarīrādudgatāstisro raktadhārā jayanti . kiṃbhūtāḥ. devairityamunā prakāreṇo-hyamānā utprekṣyamāṇāḥ. itīti kim . atirasādatigārthyāculyaṃ yugapadeva trilokīṃ grasituṃ mṛtyoḥ kiṃ nu jihvā niḥsṛtāḥ. arthānmukha-kuharāt . kiṃ vā kṛṣṇāṅghriṃpadmadyutibhi-rviṣṇucaraṇapaṅkajakāntibhiraruṇitā raktatāṃ nītā viṣṇupadyā gaṅgāyāḥ padavyaḥ pravāhāḥ.
utta athavā smarāreḥ śivasya nutibhiḥ prārthanābhististraḥ saṃdhyāḥ svayaṃprāptāḥ .
saṃdhyā api raktavarṇā bhavanti ..
datte darpātprahāre sapadi padabharopiṣṭadehāvaśiṣṭāṃ
śliṣṭāṃ śṛṅgasya koṭiṃ mahiṣasuraripornūpuragranthisīmni .
muṣyādvaḥ kalmaṣāṇi vyatikaraviratāvādadānaḥ kumāro
mātuḥ prabhraṣṭalīlākuvalayakalikākarṇapūrādareṇa ..5..

Victorious are the three streams of blood issuing from Mahiṣa struck by the Goddess's trident—that is, welling up from the body of Mahiṣa pierced by the Goddess's trident. What kind of streams? Conjectured, fancied by the gods in this manner. How so? Did the tongues of Death dart forth from the cavity of his mouth in excessive greed to devour the three worlds simultaneously? Or are they the courses—the streams—of Viṣṇupadī, the Gaṅgā, reddened, turned crimson by the beauty of the lotus feet of Viṣṇu (kṛṣṇāṅghri)? Or have the three twilights arrived in person through the praises—the prayers—of Śiva, the Enemy of Smara? For the twilights too are red in color.

When she dealt a blow in pride, the tip of the horn of the buffalo, the enemy of the gods,
which alone remained of his body crushed at once beneath the weight of her foot,
was caught at the boundary of her anklet's clasp: at the battle's end, Kumāra pulled it free,
eagerly thinking it his mother's fallen earring of a playful blue lotus bud—may he take away your impurities! (5)