Jai Maa - Devi Mahatmya

Mata Slaughters the Army

They began to strike her with swords to kill her. Showering her own weapons and arms, that Devi Chandika very easily cut into pieces all those weapons and arms. 

Without any strain on her face, and with gods and sages extolling her, the Isvari threw her weapons and arms at the bodies of the asuras. 

And the lion also which carried the Devi, shaking its mane in rage, stalked among the hosts of the asuras like a conflagration amidst the forests. 

The sighs which Ambika, engaged in the battle, heaved became at once her battalions by hundreds and thousands.

 Energized by the power of the Devi, these (battalions) fought with axes, javelins, swords, halberds, and destroyed the asuras. Of these battalions, some beat drums, some blew conches and others played on tabors in that great martial festival. 

Then the Devi killed hundreds of asuras with her trident, club, showers of spears, swords, and the like, and threw down others who were stupefied by the noise of her bell; and binding others with her noose, she dragged them on the ground. 

Some were split into two by the sharp slashes of her sword, and others, smashed by the blows of her mace, lay down on the ground; and some severely hammered by club vomited forth blood.

Pierced in the breast by her trident, some fell on the ground. Pierced all over by her arrows and resembling porcupines, some of the enemies of devas gave up their lives on that field of battle.

 Some had their arms cut off, some, their necks broken the heads of others rolled down; some others were torn asunder in the middle of their trunks, and some great asuras fell on the ground with their legs severed.

Some rendered one-armed, one-eyed, and one-legged were again clove in twain by the Devi. And others, though rendered headless, fell and rose again.

Headless trunks fought with the Devi with the best weapons in their hands. Some of these headless trunks danced there in the battle to the rhythm of the musical instruments.

The trunks of some other great asuras, with their swords, spears, and lances still in their hands, shouted at the Devi with their just severed heads, 'Stop, stop'. 

That part of the earth where the battle was fought became impassable with the asuras, elephants and horses, and chariots that had been felled.

The profuse blood from the asuras, elephants, and horses flowed immediately like large rivers amidst that army of the asuras.

 As fire consumes a huge heap of straw and wood, so did Ambika destroy that vast army of asuras in no time.

And her carrier-lion, thundering aloud with quivering mane, prowled about in the battlefield, appearing to search out the vital breaths from the bodies of the enemies of devas. 

In that battlefield, the battalions of the Devi fought in such a manner with the asuras that the devas in heaven, showering flowers, extolled them.