Jai Maa - Devi Mahatmya

Mata Kills the Generals

Then Ciksura, the great asura general, seeing that army being slain(by the Devi), advanced in anger to fight with Ambika.

That asura rained showers of arrows on the Devi in the battle, even as a cloud (showers) rain on the summit of Mount Meru.

Then the Devi, easily cutting asunder the masses of his arrows, killed his horses and their controller with her arrows.

 Forthwith she split his bow and lofty banner, and with her arrows pierced the body of that(asura) whose bow had been cut.

 His bow shattered, his chariot broken, his horses killed and his charioteer slain, the asura armed with sword and shield rushed at the Devi.

Swiftly he smote the lion on the head with his sharp-edged sword and struck the Devi also on her left arm.

O king, his sword broke into pieces as it touched her arm. Thereon his eyes turning red with anger, he grasped his pike.

Then the great asura flung at Bhandrakali the pike, blazing with luster as if he was hurling the very sun from the skies.

Seeing that pike coming upon her, the Devi hurled her pike that shattered his pike into a hundred fragments and the great asura himself.

Mahisasura's very valiant general having been killed, Camara, the affliction of devas, mounted on an elephant, advanced.

 He also hurled his spear at the Devi. Ambika quickly assailed it with a whoop, made it lustreless, and fall to the ground.

Seeing his spear broken and fallen, Camara, full of rage, flung a pike, and she split that also with her arrows.

Then the lion, leaping up and seating itself at the center of the elephant's forehead, engaged itself in a hand-to-hand fight with that foe of the devas.

 Fighting, the two then came down to the earth from the back of the elephant, and fought very impetuously, dealing the most terrible blows at each other.

Then the lion, springing up quickly to the sky and descending, severed Camara's head with a blow from its paw.

And Udagra was killed in the battle by the Devi with stones, trees, and the like, and Karala struck down by her teeth and fists and slaps.

Enraged, the Devi ground Uddhata to powder with the blows of her club, and killed Baskala with a dart, and destroyed Tamra and Andhaka with arrows.

The three-eyed Supreme Isvari killed Ugrasya and Ugravirya and Mahahanu also with her trident.

With her sword, she struck down Bidala's head from his body and dispatched both Durdhara and Durmudha to the abode of Death with her arrows.