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Markandeyapurana 89.6

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 89.6

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Sanskrit

89.6

ājagāma mahāvīryaḥ śumbho 'pi svabalairvṛtaḥ /
nihantuṃ caṇḍikāṃ kopātkṛtāva yuddhaṃ tu mātṛbhiḥ //

The ṛṣi spoke:
After Raktavīja was slain and other demons were killed in the fight, the Asura Śumbha gave way to unbounded wrath, and Niśumbha also. Pouring out his indignation at beholding his great army being slaughtered, Niśumbha then rushed forward with the flower of the Asura army. In front of him and behind and on both sides great Asuras, biting their lips and enraged, advanced to slay the goddess. Śumbha also went forward, mighty in valour, surrounded with his own troops, to slay Caṇḍikā in his rage, after engaging in battle with the Mothers. Then occurred a desperate combat between the goddess and Śumbha and Niśumbha, who both, like two thunder-clouds, rained a most tempestuous shower of arrows on her. Caṇḍikā with multitudes of arrows quickly split the arrows shot by them, and smote the two Asura lords on their limbs with her numerous weapons.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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