Markandeyapurana 84.9

84.9

yā muktiheturavicintyamahāvratā tvam
abhyasyase suniyatendriyatattvasāraiḥ /
mokṣārthibhirmunibhirastasamastadoṣair
vidyāsi sā bhagavatī paramā hi devi //

Hence thou art in truth declared by men to be Svadhā also.
Thou art she, who effects final emancipation, and performs great thought-transcending penances!
Thou studiest[10] with thy organs, which are the essence of strength,[11] well-restrained!
With munis, who seek final emancipation and who have shed all their faults,
Thou art The Knowledge, adorable, sublime in sooth, O goddess!
Sound is thy soul! thou art the repository of the most spotless ṛc and yajus hymns,
And of the sāmans, which have the charming-worded texts of the Ud-gītha!
Thou as goddess art the triple Veda, the adorable, and for the existence and production
Of all the worlds art active; thou art the supreme destroyer of their pains![12]
Thou art Mental Vigour,[13] O goddess! thou hast comprehended the essence of all the Scriptures!
Thou art Durgā; the boat to cross the difficult ocean of existence; devoid of attachments!
Thou art Śrī, who has planted her dominion alone in the heart of Kaiṭabha’s foe!
Thou indeed art Gaurī, who has fixed her dweling in the moon-crested god!
Slightly-smiling, spotless, resembling the full moon’s
Orb, beautiful as the choicest gold, and lovely was thy face!
Yet’t was very marvellous that, being swayed by anger,
The Asura Mahiṣa suddenly smote thy face when he saw it.
But after seeing thy wrathful face, O goddess, terrible with its frowns,
And sheeny in hue like the rising moon, that Mahiṣa
Did not forthwith yield up his life,’t was passing wonderful!