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She destroyed the canopies, separated the palanquins from the elephants.,

It seemed that Hanuman after setting Lanka on fire, has thrown down the loft of the palace of the citadel.132.,

Chandi, taking her superb sword, twisted the faces of the demons with her blows.,

She destroyed those demons, who had obstructed her advance with their strength, being arrayed in rows.,

Eroding the demons by creating fear, she ultimately crushed their bones.,

She drank the blood as Krishna quaffed fire and the sage agastya drank the water of ocean.133.,

Chandi began the war very swiftly holding the bow in her hand, she killed the unaccountable number of demons.

She killed all the army of the demon Raktavija and with their blood, the jackals and vultures satisfied their hunger.,

Seeing the dreadful face of the goddess, the demons ran away from the field like this.,

Just as with the blowing of swift and forceful wind, the leaves of the fig tree (peepal) fly away.134.,

With great the mighty Chandika, holding the sword in her hand, destroyed the horses and the enemies.,

Many were killed with arrows, disc and mace and the bodies of many were torn by the lion.,

She killed the forces on horses, elephants and on foot and wounding those on chariots hath rendered them without chariots.,

The elements lying on the ground at that place seem to have fallen like mountains during the earthquake.135.,

DOHRA,

All the army of Raktavija ran away in fear of the goddess.,

The demon brought them and said, “I shall destroy Chnadi.”136.,

SWAYYA,

Hearing these words with ears, the warriors returned and holding their swords in their hands,

And with great rage in their minds, with great force and swiftness, they began the war with the goddess.,

The blood flowed out from their wounds and falls on the ground like the water in the cataract.,

The sound of the arrows appears like the cracking sound produced by the fire burning the needs.137.,

Hearing the command of Raktavija the army of the demons came and resisted before the goddess.,

The warriors began to wage war holding their shields, swords and daggers in their hands.,

They did not hesitate to come and have plucked up their hearts firmly.,

They withheld Chandi from all the four sides like the sun encircled by clouds from all directions.138.,

The powerful Chandi, in great rage, hath caught hold of her mighty bow with great force.,

Penetrating like lightning amongst the clouds-like enemy, she hath cut asunder the army of demons.,

She hath destroyed the enemy with her arrows, the poet hath imagined it in this manner:

It seems that the arrows are moving like the radiant rays of the sun and the bits of the flesh of the demons are flying here and there like dust.139.,

After killing the enormous army of the demons, Chandi hath swiftly held up her bow.,

She hath torn the forces with her arrows and the mighty lion hath also roared loudly.,

Many chieftains have been killed and the blood is flowing on the ground in this great war.,

The head of one demon hath been kicked by the bow thrown away like the lightning desecrating a palace.140.,

DOHRA,

Chandi destroyed al the army of the demons in this way,

Just as Hanuman, the son of wind-god, uprooted the garden of Lanka.141.,

SWAYYA,

Very powerful Chandi, thundering like clouds, hath showered her arrows on the enemy like rain-drops.,

Taking the lightning-like sword in her hand, she hath cut into halves the trunks of the warriors and thrown them on the ground.,

The wounded revolve and like this according to the imagination of the poet.,

Within the flowing stream of blood are drowned the corpses formulating the banks (of the stream).142.,

In this way, the warriors cut into halves by Chandi, are lying on the ground.,

The corpse hath fallen on the corpses and the blood is flowing enormously as if millions of spouts are feeding the flow.,

The elephants are bumped against the elephants and the poet imagines it like this,

That with blowing of the wind each other.143.,

Holding her terrible sword in her hand, Chandi hath begun her function with powerful movement in the battlefield.,

With great force she hath killed many warriors and their flowing blood seems like Vaitarni stream.,