ਸ੍ਵੈਯਾ ॥

SWAYYA,

The demons were frightened from the goddess like the darkness from sun, like the clouds from the wind and the snake from the peacock.,

Just like the cowards from the heroes, falsehood from the truth and the deer from the lion become fearful immediately.,

Just as the praise from the miser, bliss from separation and the family from a bad son are destroyed.,

Just as the Dharma is destroyed with anger and intellect with illusion, similarly the war and in great anger ran forward.,

The demons returned again for war and in great anger ran forward.,

Some of them run their swift horses pulling their bows fitted with arrows.,

The dust which hath been created by horses’ hooves and hath gone upwards, hath covered the sun’s sphere.,

It seemed that Brahma hath created the fourteen worlds agin with six nether-words and eight skies (because the sphere of dust hath become the eighth sky).147.,

Chandi, taking her terrific bow, hath carded like cotton the bodies of the demons with her arrows.,

She hath killed the elephants with her sword, because of which the pride of the demons hath flown away like the flakes of akk-plant.,

The white turbans of the heads of warriors flowed in the blood-stream.,

It seemed that the current of Saraswati, the bubbles of heroes’ praises are flowing.148.,

The goddess, taking her mace in her hand, waged a ferocious war against the demons, in great anger.,

Holding her sword in her hand, she mighty Chandika killed and reduced the army of demons to dust.,

Seeing one head falling with turban, the poet imagined,

That with the end of the of virtuous actions, a star hath fallen down of earth from the sky.149.,

Then the goddess, with her great strength, throwing the big elephants far away like clouds.,

Holding the arrows in her hand she pulled the bow destroying the demons and drank the blood with great interest.,

Seeing this and shriveling, some of the demons, being perturbed, have run away, with great heart-beat.,

Are the arrow of Chadi like the rays of the sun?, seeing which the light of the demon-lamp hath become dim.150.,

Holding her sword in her hand, she grew furious and with great force, waged a terrible war.,

Moving swiftly from her place, she killed many demons and destroyed a very big elephant in the battlefield.,

Seeing that elegant in the battlefield, the poet imagines,

That in order to construct the bridge on the sea, Nal and Neel have thrown the mountain after uprooting it. 151.,