Candishataka 83

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iti sasphuroktaṃ muditatanusudaṃ mahipatanubhṛtaṃ dānavaṃ vāmapārṣṇyā nighnatī
śailaputrī vaḥ pāyāt . sasphuraṃ sphuraṇayuktamuktaṃ yasya tam . muditāyāṃ romā-
ñcitāyāṃ tanau mud yasya tam . iti kim . samaraṃ saṅgrāmaṃ prati īśajanmā
kārtikayo'dyāpi bālaḥ . uḍupabhrūccandraśekharaḥ śivaḥ pāṃmulīlāvilāsī bhasmo-
ddhūlanāsaktaḥ . nāgāsyo gaṇapatiḥ śātadantaḥ, atha ca svatanukaramadādvihvalaḥ
ata eva so'pi śāntaḥ . adhunā tvaṃ kva yāsi dhik ..
mūrdhnaḥ śūlaṃ mamaitadviphalamabhimukhaṃ śaṃkarotkhānaśūlaṃ
saṅgrāmāddūrametaddhṛtamari hariṇā manmanaḥ karpatīva .
garvādevaṃ kṣipantaṃ vivudhajanavibhūndaityasenādhināthaṃ
śarvāṇī pātu yuṣmānpadabharadalanātprāṇato dūrayantī .. 83 ..

he too has grown tranquil through the frenzy of his own body and trunk: / fie, where are you fleeing?" Striking with her left heel the demon who wore the form of a buffalo, who spoke thus tremulously and whose bodily joy was crushed, may the Mountain's Daughter protect you. "Whose speech was tremulous" means whose words were accompanied by trembling. "Whose bodily joy was crushed" means he whose joy was gone when his body bristled with hair. "Thus"—what did he say? "Regarding the fight, the battle, the Lord's offspring, Kārttikeya, is still a child; Śiva, bearing the crescent boat, sporting in the play of dust, is intent on smearing ashes; the elephant-faced one, Gaṇapati, has sharp tusks, and moreover is paralyzed with the frenzy of his own body and trunk; therefore even he is tranquil. Now, where do you flee? Fie!"
"This spear of Śaṃkara, raised in front of me to no avail, has become a headache to my head; / the discus, held by Hari far away from the battle, seems to pierce my heart." / May Śarvāṇī protect you, driving the commander of the Daitya army from his life-breaths by crushing him beneath the weight of her foot, / as he thus mocked the lords of the gods out of pride. 83