ਸ੍ਵੈਯਾ ॥

SWAYYA,

Seeing the powerful forces of the demons, Chandi revolved the lion’s face swiftly.,

Even the disc, wind, canopy nd grindstone cannot revolve so swiftly.,

The lion hath revolved in that battlefield in such a way that even the whirlwind cannot compete with it.,

The can be no other comparison except that the face of the lion may be considered on both the sides of his body.211.,

At that time the powerful Chandi had fought a great war with huge gathering of demons.,

Challenging the unaccountable army, chastening and awakening it, Kali had destroyed it in the battlefield.,

The war was fought there upto four hundred kos and the poet hath imagined it like this:,

Only one ghari (small duration of time) was not complete, when the demons had fallen on the earth like the leaves (of trees) in autumn.212.,

When all the four divisions of army were killed, Sumbh marched forward to obstruct the advance of Chandi.,

At that time the whole earth shook and Shiva rose and ran from his seat of contemplation.,

The necklace (snake) of Shiva’s throat had withered because of fear, it trembled because of great fear in his heart.,

That snake clinging to Shiva’s throat appears like the string of the wreath of skulls.213.,

Coming in front of Chandi, the demon Sumbh uttered from his mouth: “I have come to know all this.,

“Alongwith Kali and other powers thou hast destroyed all the parts of my army.”,

At that time Chandi uttered these words from her month to Kali and other powers: “Merge in me” and at the same instant they all merged in Chandi,

Like the rain-water in the current of the steam.214.,

In the war, Chnadi, taking the dagger, struck it with great force on the demon.,

It penetrated into the breast of the enemy, the vamps were fully satisfied with his blood.

Seeing that horrible war, the poet hath imagined it like this:,

The corpses falling on one another seem like a ladder of heaven made by the warriors in the war.215.,

Chandi, with great rage, hath waged war several times with the forces of Sumbh.,

The jackals, vamps and vultures are like laborers and the dancer standing in the mud of flesh and blood is Shiva himself.,

The corpses upon corpses have become a wall and the fat and marrow are the plaster (on that wall).,

(This is not the battlefield) it appears that Vishwakarma, the builder of beautiful mansions, hath created this wonderful portrait. 216.,