Candishataka 59

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sā umā vo'vatamasanirāsāya ajñānāndhakāradūrīkaraṇāya svādbhavatu .
sā kā . yasyāḥ smite yā daśanaruk tayā śvetīkṛte'sminmahiṣe tulyarūpo
himādridrāgdrādhīyānivāsīt . kathaṃbhūtaḥ . duhitrā pārvatyā nihataṃ śatru mahiṣaṃ
śrutvātijaḍo'pyahvāya śīghra harṣādāgato vindhyabuddhyā śailakalpaṃ mahiṣamā.
śliṣyan . kīdṛśaḥ . avanibhṛtaḥ parvatā bāndhavā yasya tādṛśaḥ..
kṣipto'yaṃ mandarādriḥ punarapi bhavatā veṣṭyatāṃ vāsuke'b3dhau
4prīyassvānena kiṃ te bisatanutanubhirbhakṣitastārkṣya nāgaiḥ .
1. 'surapate'. 2. 'atanujanunirāsāya'. 3. 'asau'. 4. 'prīto'nenaiva'.
aṣṭābhirdiggajendraiḥ saha na harikarī karṣatīmaṃ hate vo
hrīmatyā haimavatyāstri1daśaripupatau pāntviti vyāhṛtāni ..59..

May that Umā be yours to dispel the darkness, to drive away the darkness of ignorance.
Who is she? When this Mahiṣa was whitened by the luster of the teeth in her smile, the Snowy Mountain, identical in form, seemed straightway elongated. Of what sort? Hearing that his enemy Mahiṣa had been slain by his daughter Pārvatī, though exceedingly sluggish he came at once in joy, embracing the mountain-like Mahiṣa, taking him for the Vindhya. Of what sort? One whose kinsmen are the earth-bearers, the mountains.

“This Mount Mandara has been thrown down; let it be wound around once more by you in the ocean, O Vāsuki!
Be delighted with this, O Tārkṣya; why have you eaten serpents whose bodies are as slender as lotus fibers?
Indra’s elephant, together with the eight lordly world-elephants, cannot drag him away!”—
May these words spoken by the modest Daughter of the Himālaya when the lordly enemy of the gods was slain protect you! ||59