Markandeyapurana 86
English (machine translation) 86
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- 86.20 — 2 parts
86.1
The sage said: / Having heard these words of the goddess, that messenger, filled with indignation, / approached the king of Daityas and related them in full detail.
86.2
Hearing those words of his messenger, the king of Asuras then, / filled with rage, spoke to Dhūmralocana, a commander of the Daityas:
86.3
“O Dhūmralocana, surrounded by your own army, / quickly bring that wicked woman by force, distraught from being dragged by the hair!
86.4
If any other stands up as her protector, / he must be killed, whether he be an immortal, a Yakṣa, or a Gandharva.”
86.5
The sage said: / Commanded then by him, that Daitya Dhūmralocana / quickly set forth, surrounded by sixty thousand Asuras.
86_2
Seeing the goddess situated on the snowy mountain, / he shouted loudly: “Go into the presence of Śumbha and Niśumbha!
86.7
"If you do not willingly come to my lord today, / then I shall drag you by force, distressed by being pulled by the hair."
86.8
The goddess said: / "Sent by the lord of Daityas, mighty and surrounded by troops, / if you take me thus by force, then what can I do to you?"
86.9
The ṛṣi said: / Addressed thus, that asura Dhūmralocana rushed toward her; / then Ambikā turned him to ashes with a mere roar of 'huṃ'.
86.10
Then Ambikā rained sharp arrows, / as well as spears and battleaxes, upon the enraged great army of the asuras.
86.11
Then, shaking his mane in anger and letting out a terrifying roar, / the lion, the mount of the goddess, leaped upon the asura army.
86.12
Some Daityas with blows of his paw, and others with his mouth, / and trampling others underfoot, he slew the great asuras.
86.13
The lion tore open the bellies of some with his claws, / and severed heads with slaps of his paw.
86.14
Others had their arms and heads severed and were scattered by him, / and shaking his mane, he drank the blood from the bellies of others.
86.15
In an instant, that entire force was brought to ruin / by that high-minded, exceedingly furious lion, the mount of the goddess.
86.16
Hearing that the asura Dhūmralocana had been slain by the goddess, / and that the entire army had then been destroyed by the goddess's lion,
86.17
Śumbha, the lord of the Daityas, flew into a rage, his lower lip quivering, / and commanded the two great asuras, Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa:
86.18
"O Caṇḍa, O Muṇḍa, surrounded by large forces, / go there, and having gone, let her be brought quickly!
86.19
Dragging [her] by the hair or binding [her], or if you have any doubt in battle, / then let her be slain by all the asuras with all weapons.
86.20
When that wicked woman is slain and her lion struck down, / come quickly, having bound and seized that Ambikā.
86.20.p1
Thus ends the eighty-sixth chapter, named 'The Slaying of Dhūmralocana', in the Devīmāhātmya in the Sāvarṇi manvantara of the glorious Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.
86.20.p2
Eighty-seventh chapter - 87
Translations (1)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
Commentaries (1)
- Guptavatī — Bhāskararāya Makhin 1741, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit