Candishataka 6

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asminśloke kumāro vaḥ kalmaṣāṇi muṣyādityanvayo yadi vidhīyate tadā
kumārasyāprākaraṇikatvādaprastutānvayatā syāt . tasmādevamadhyāhṛtya vyākhye-
yam-sā mātā vaḥ kalmaṣāṇi muṣyāt . yasyā mātuḥ kumāro vyatikaravi-
ratau mahiṣeṇa saha yuddhasamāptau prabhraṣṭalīlākuvalayakalikākarṇapūrādareṇa śṛṅgasya
koṭimagramādadāno vartate . neyaṃ mahiṣaṅgakoṭiḥ, kiṃtu mama mātuḥ karṇā-
śyutto nīlotpalakalikārūpaḥ karṇapūra evāyamiti śraddhayeti bhāvaḥ . kīdṛ-
śīm . darpānmadātprahāre datte sati sapadi tatkṣaṇaṃ padabhareṇa caraṇagurutveno-
spiṣṭaścūrṇitaḥ sa cāsau dehaśca tasmādavaśiṣṭām . atha ca nūpuragranthisīmni
śliṣṭāṃ lagnām . kasya dehāvaśiṣṭām . mahiṣasuraripormahiṣarūpaḥ suraripustasya .
mahiṣaśṛṅgāṇi prāyeṇa kaṭhināni bhavantīti śṛṅgakoṭeravaśiṣṭatvakāraṇam ..
śaśvadviśvopakāraprakṛtiravikṛtiḥ sāstu śāntyai śivā vo
yasyāḥ pādopaśalye trideśapatiripurdūraduṣṭāśayo'pi .
nāke prāpatpratiṣṭhāmasakṛdabhimukho vādayañśṛṅgakoṭyā
hatvā koṇena vīṇāmiva raṇitamaṇiṃ maṇḍalīṃ nūpurasya .. 6 ..

In this stanza, if the construed sentence is made: "May Kumāra steal away your sins," then, because Kumāra is not the principal topic, there would be an construed connection of an extraneous matter. Therefore, one should supply [words] and explain thus: "May that Mother steal away your sins—" of which Mother Kumāra, at the cessation of the conflict, upon the conclusion of the battle with Mahiṣa, takes up the tip, the point, of the horn, regarding it as the fallen play-lotus bud used as an ear-ornament. With the belief: "This is not the tip of Mahiṣa's horn, but rather this very ear-ornament fallen from my mother's ear in the form of a blue lotus bud"—this is the sense. [What kind of horn-tip?] When a blow was delivered out of pride, instantly crushed to powder by the weight of her foot, by the heaviness of her foot—remaining from that body; and furthermore, clinging, caught fast at the boundary of her anklet's knot. Remaining from the body of whom? Of Mahiṣa, the enemy of the gods—of him who had the form of a buffalo, an enemy of the gods. The horns of a buffalo are generally hard, which is the reason for the remaining of the horn's tip.

Constantly the very nature of benefiting the universe, devoid of change, may that Śivā be for your peace,
at the edge of whose foot the enemy of the lord of the gods, though deeply wicked of intent,
found a place in heaven, as he charged again and again, playing with the tip of his horn
the circle of her anklet with its tinkling gems, like a vīṇā struck with a plectrum! (6)