Skandapurana 7.4.52_38.2

7.4.52_38.2

sanatkumāra uvāca
evamuktastadā vyāsa bhagavān vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ .
uvāca prahasan devīṃ pitā tava śucismite ..9. .
pūrvajanmani suśroṇi prajāpatisutaḥ śubhe .
mama tvaṃ bhāvavijñānaṃ kurvatī15 devi bhāṣase . .8.32.1 0 . .
nahi duḥkhaṃ piturloke kaścidicchati bhāmini16 .
evamuktā tadā vyāsa17 devena vimalātmanā .. 11 ..
lalāṭe bhṛkuṭīṃ18 kṛtvā tato devyāyatekṣaṇā .
krodhāt19 kareṇa nāsāgraṃ saṃmamarda śucismitā .. 12 . .
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4 taṃ vahantaṃ - gha. . 5 apaśntī - gha. . 6 ślakṣṇaṃ - gha. . 7 tvaṃ gatiḥ kha . 8 śaraṇārthināṃ - gha. . 9 jajñe - ka . 10 tava - gha . 11. sāmnā sarvaṃsurādhyakṣa-- gha. nāmnā - ka, nāmnā - ka, na satvo - gha. . 12 svayaṃ - kha. . 13 stadā tena - gha., tadordhvena - ka . 14 -vidhīyate - gha. . 15 kurvanto - kha. . 16 bhāvini - gha, . 17 devī - gha. . 18 bhrukuṭī - ka. 19 kruddhā - gha .
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tasyāṃ saṃmṛdyamānāyāṃ nāsikāyāmatiprabhā .
jajñe strī bhṛkuṭīvaktrā caturdaṃṣṭrā trilocanā
baddhagodhāṃgulitrā ca kavacā20 baddhamekhalā .. 13 ..
sakhaṅgā sadhanuṣkā ca21 satūṇīrā22 patākinī .
dvādaśāsyā daśabhujā tanumadhyā tamonibhā23 ..14. .
ghanastanī24 pṛthukaṭī nāganāsoruravyayā25 .
bhadrakālīti tāṃ prāha devīṃ devī26 śubhānanā27 . .1 5..
tatobravīt tadā devameṣā sṛṣṭā mayā prabho .
tvamapyanyaṃ sṛja gaṇamanurūpaṃ namostute ..1 6..
tato devastadā skandhaṃ svamavaikṣata bhāsvaram28 .
tasmājjajñe pumān divyastrailokyaṃ pradahanniva29 . . 17. .
bhṛkuṭībhūṣitāsyaśca30 baddhagodhāṃgulitravān .

Sanatkumāra said:
“Addressed thus, O Vyāsa, the blessed Lord who bears the bull upon his banner
smiled and spoke to the goddess: ‘O lady of bright smiles, your father
in a previous birth, O fair-hipped, auspicious one, was the son of Prajāpati.
Testing my disposition, O goddess, do you speak [thus]?
For no passionate woman wishes sorrow upon her father in this world.’
Spoken to thus at that time, O Vyāsa, by the pure-souled god,
the goddess of wide eyes then knit her brows upon her forehead,
and in anger the brightly smiling one rubbed the tip of her nose with her hand.
As that nose was being rubbed, a woman of great radiance
was born, with a frown on her face, four fangs, and three eyes,
wearing armguards of leather and finger-protectors, clad in armor, wearing a girded belt,
having a sword, a bow, quivers, and a banner,
twelve-faced, ten-armed, slender-waisted, dark as gloom,
with firm breasts, broad hips, thighs like elephant trunks, imperishable.
The goddess with a lovely face addressed that goddess as Bhadrakālī.
Then she spoke to the god: ‘She has been created by me, O Lord;
you also create another suitable attendant. Homage be to you!’
Then the god looked upon his own radiant shoulder;
from it was born a divine man, as if burning up the three worlds,
his face adorned with knitted brows, equipped with leather armguards and finger-protectors,”