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Markandeyapurana 88.8

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 88.8

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Sanskrit

88.8

sa ca siṃho mahānādamatīva kṛtavān nṛpa /
ghaṇṭāsvanena tannādamambikā cāpyabṛṃhayat //

After issuing these commands Śumbha, the lord of the Asuras, who ruled with fear, went forth, attended by many thousands of great soldiers. Caṇḍikā, seeing that most terrible army at hand, filled the space between the earth and the firmament with the twanging of her bow-string. Thereon her lion roared exceedingly loud, O king; and Ambika augmented[7] those roars with the clanging of her bell. Kāli, filling the regions of the sky with the noise from her bowstring, from her lion and from her bell, and expanding her mouth wide with her terrific roars, had the predominance.[8] On hearing that roar which filled the four regions of the sky, the Daitya armies enraged[9] surrounded the goddess’ lion and Kāli.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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