Candishataka 65

65

bhaktyā bhṛgvatrimukhyairmunibhirabhinutā, tathā garvaṃ naiva bibhratī, praśamita-
sakaloplavā sā śarvāṇī vaḥ śarmaṇe sadāstu . yā pārṣṇikṣuṇṇaśatrurnākauko-
lokaṃ devalokaṃ svaṃ bhujavanamapyavastvapadārthamamaṃsta . kathaṃbhūtam . saṃyuge viga-
litakuliśaprāsapāśatriśūlam . devahastebhyo bhayena bhavānībhujebhyaśca prahā-
rārthaṃ kuliśādīni galitāni ..
cakra śaureḥ pratīpaṃ pratihatamagamatprāgdyudhāmnāṃ tu paścā-
dāpaccāpaṃ balārerna paramaguṇatāṃ pūstrayaploṣiṇo'pi .
śaktyālaṃ māṃ vijetuṃ na jagadapi śiśau ṣaṇmukhe kā katheti
nyakkurvannākilokaṃ ripuravadhi yayā sāvatātpārvatī vaḥ ..65..

Praised with devotion by the sages headed by Bhṛgu and Atri, likewise bearing no pride at all, may that Śarvāṇī, who has quelled all distress, be ever for your welfare—she who, having crushed the enemy with her heel, considered the host of the gods, the world of the gods, and even the forest of her own arms to be trivial, unsubstantial. Of what sort? From which the thunderbolt, spear, noose, and trident had slipped in the battle. Out of fear from the hands of the gods, and from the arms of Bhavānī for the purpose of striking, the thunderbolts and other [weapons] had fallen.

“Śauri’s discus, parried, turned back first, but the host of the gods later;
and the bow of Balāri, as well as that of the Burner of the Three Cities, met with sheer stringlessness.
Even the entire world is not enough to conquer me by power; what talk of that child, the Six-Faced One?”—
May that Pārvatī protect you, by whom the enemy was slain as he thus reviled the world of heaven. || 65