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Markandeyapurana 87.16

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 87.16

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Sanskrit

87.16

śaravarṣairmahābhīmairbhomākṣīṃ tāṃ mahāsuraḥ /
chādayāmāsa cakraiśca muṇḍaḥ kṣiptaiḥ sahasraśaḥ //

Seeing all that host of Asuras laid low in a moment, Caṇḍa rushed against her, Kālī, who was exceedingly appalling. Muṇḍa the great Asura covered her, the terrible-eyed goddess, with very terrible showers of arrows and with discuses hurled in thousands. Those discuses seemed to be penetrating her countenance in multitudes, like as very many solar orbs might penetrate the body of a thunder-cloud. Thereat Kālī, who was roaring frightfully, laughed terribly with excessive fury, showing the gleam of her unsightly teeth within her dreadful mouth. And the goddess, mounting upon her great lion, rushed at Caṇḍa, and seizing him by his hair struck off his head with her sword. And Muṇḍa also rushed at her when he saw Caṇḍa laid low; him also she felled to the ground, stricken with her scymitar in her fury. Then the army, so much as escaped unslain, seeing Caṇḍa laid low and most valiant Muṇḍa also, seized with panic fled in all directions.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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