You art the substratum of all luminaries
- You create and destroy allThe Lord of all CelestialsWe meditate fully on TheePlanets Stars Galaxies are your bodyDivinity is established in Thee aloneYou are the AdiPurusha/AdiPrakruti The Foremost of all BeingsAll sins are destroyed by remembering Thee.MAHĀKĀLI DHYANAMMeditation on MahākāliFrom the Devī Mahātmyam [Mārkendeya Purana]Om Namaś Chaṇḍikāyai.Om khaḍgaṁ chakra-gadeṣu-chāpa-parighāñchūlaṃ bhuśuṇḍīṁ śiraḥśaṅkhaṁ saṃda-dhatīṁ karai-stri-nayanāṁsarvāṅga-bhūṣāvṛitāmNīlāśma-dyutimāsya pāda-daśakāṁseve Mahākālikāṁyāmastaut-svapite harau kamalajohantuṁ madhuṁ kaiṭabham.Om Namaś Chaṇḍikāyai.Om, I bow to the Goddess Chaṇḍikā.Om, holding a scimitar, disk, mace, arrows and bow, lance, club, a skull and a conch shell in Her ten hands. The three-eyed goddess, Her body covered with ornaments, Her countenance with the brilliance of blue diamonds, with ten limbs. We offer our service to Mahākāli, She who Brahma praised for protection from the demons Madhu and Kaitava, when Vishnu was in sleep.Book 5/Chapter 6/1:55On the Deva Dânava fight
1-8. Vyâsa said :-- O King! On the Daitya Tâmra becoming unconscious
Mahisa
became very angry
and, raising his Gadâ (club), came up before the Devas and said :--
“Devas! O Ye powerless like crows; wait; with one
stroke of Gadâ, I will kill you.” Thus
saying, the powerful Mahisa swelled with pride, seeing Indra before him mounted
on his elephant instantly struck him on his arms. Indra, again lost no time, and struck violently
with his thunderbolt and cut the Dânava's Gadâ into pieces, and came up very close,
wanting to strike at him. Mahisa, too,
becoming very angry took up his lustrous sword and came to Indra to attack him
with this weapon. A fight then occurred
between the two, terrible to all the Lokas and wonderful to the Munis, where
various weapons were showered from both the sides. The Demon Mahisa spread then his S'âmvarî Mâyâ,
destructive to all the worlds and fascinating to the Munis.
Hundreds and hundreds
of powerful buffalo-like appearances resembling Mahisa
became, then, visible
on the battle-field; they all began to kill the Deva forces with
weapons in their
hands.
9-14. Seeing this magic of the
Dânava, Indra became thunderstruck and very much
confounded with
terror. Varuna, Kuvera, the Lord of
wealth, Yama, Fire, Moon, Sun, and other Devas all fled with terror. Indra then, being surrounded by the network
of magic, began to call Brahmâ, Visnu and Mahes'a in his mind. At the instant when they were called in mind,
Brahmâ, Visnu and Mahes’a riding on respective conveyances Swan, Garuda, and
Bull, came up there with best weapons in their hands for Indra's protection.
Visnu seeing the play of that fascinating
magic hurled his bright discus, Sudars'an; and caused the magic to vanish at
once. Seeing the three, the Creator, the
Preserver, and the Destroyer, the Dânava Mahisa came up there with his Parigha
(a club tipped with iron) weapon, desirous to fight with them.
15-16. Then the general Chiksura,
Ugrâsya, Ugravîrya, Asilomâ, Trinetra, Vâskala, Andhaka and other warriors came
up to fight.
17-23. Those Proud Dânavas, clad
in armour and mounted on chariots with bows in their hands besieged the Devas,
like a tiger attacking an heifer. Then
those Dânavas swelled with pride began to shower on arrows after arrows; the
Devas, too, began to do the same, desiring to extirpate them.
The General
Andhaka, coming up to Hari, drew his bow with great force up to his ear and
shot at him five sharp arrows tipped with poison. Vâsudeva, the Destroyer of the enemies, cut
off those arrows no sooner they came up before him; and He shot at the Dânavas
five arrows. Then Hari and the Dânava
struck each other with various weapons and arrows, swords, discus, Musala,
clubs, S’akti, and Paras'u.
Here, on the
other hand, the fight lasted for fifty days between Mahes'a versus Andhaka; and
it was a very close conflict, causing horripilation. Thus severe fights ensued between Vâskala and
Indra, Mahisa and Rudra, Trinetra and Yama, Mahâ Hanu and Kuvera, Asilomâ
and Varuna.
24-39. The Dânava Mahisa struck
Garuda, the conveyance of Hari, with his club;
Garuda, being very
much distressed with the blow, sat down, gasping. Visnu then
comforted the
powerful Garuda, the son of Vinatâ and made him calm and quiet.
Wanting to kill
Andhaka, Janârdana became infuriated, and, drawing his bow made of horn, call
S'ârnga, shot at him arrows after arrows.
The Dânava cut off all those arrows to pieces with his own mass of
arrows. Then, becoming very angry, he
shot fifty sharp arrows at Hari. Vâsudeva
quickly made all those arrows useless
and hurled Sudars'ana
Chakra with thousand spokes on the Dânava with great violence. Andhaka thwarted this with his own discus and
shouted aloud with such a great force that all the Devas became confused and
confounded.
Visnu's Chakra being baffled,
the Devas became distressed with grief and the Dânavas got elated. Seeing the Devas thus grieved, Visnu held
aloft his Kaumodakî Gadâ (club) and came hurriedly before the Dânava. Hari struck then with his Gadâ on the
Dânava's head whereon he fell senseless on the ground. The hot-tempered Mahisa, seeing Andhaka
senseless, bellowed aloud and, terrifying Hari, came up there.
Seeing him there, Vâsudeva made such a thundering
noise with his bow string that the Devas became highly glad. Then the Bhagavân shot showers of arrows on
Mahisa; and Mahisa, too, cut those arrows while they were seen in the air. O king!
Then a very close fight ensued between the two, Kes'ava struck on the
head of the Dânava with his club. Thus
struck, he fell in a swoon on the ground and a general cry of distress arose
amongst the Dânavas. In a moment the
Dânava got up again, free from trouble; he then struck again on Visnu's head
with his Parigha (a club mounted with iron, a mace). Struck by that mace, Janârdan lay senseless;
Garuda, seeing him thus unconscious, immediately took him away from the battle
field.
40-55. When Visnu thus fled,
Indra and the Devas were much distressed with fear and began to cry aloud. Hearing the Devas cry, S'ankara became
wrathful and, quickly coming before Mahisa, struck him with his trident (S'ûla). The wicked Mahisa made his weapon ineffectual
and bellowed aloud and struck on the breast of S'ankara with his S’akti (a kind
of missile). Thus wounded in his breast
S'ankara did not feel any pain; rather, with his eyes red with anger, He struck
him again with Trisûla.
Seeing S'ankara engaged
with Mahisa, Hari becoming conscious came again on the battle-field. Seeing the two powerful Deva-chiefs, Hari and
Hara, in the battle-field Mahisa became very much angry: he then assumed a
buffalo body and wagging his tail to and fro came in front of them with a
desire to fight. That terrible Mahisa of
a huge body shook his horns and bellowed so deep like a thunder cloud that even
the Devas got frightened. He began to hurl the
huge mountain peaks with his two horns. The
two powerful Devas Hari and Hara, began to shoot at the Dânava deadly arrows
after arrows. Seeing these two gods
shower arrows upon him, Mahisa began to hurl mountains on them by his tail. Visnu cut off those mountains into hundred
pieces by his arrow; and struck at him instantly with his Chakra.
Struck thus by Chakra, the Lord of the
Dânavas fainted, but he instantly rose up with a human body. The mountain-like terrible Dânava with a club
in his hand frightened the Devas and uttered grave sounds like those of
rumbling rain clouds. Hearing that, the
Bhagavân Visnu sounded a more terrible sound with his Pañchajanya S'ankha
(conchshell). Hearing the sound of that
conchshell, the Dânavas were struck with
terror and the ascetic Risis and Devas became exalted with joy.
Here ends the Sixth
Chapter of the Fifth Skandha on the Deva Dânava fight in S'rî Mad Devî
Bhâgavatam, the Mahâ Purânam, of 18,000 versus by Maharsi Veda Vyâsa.
Source: Translation of The Srimad Devi Bhagvatam by Swami Vijnanananda
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