Demon Durgama heard all from the emissaries and started out to fight with his weapons and army. He took one thousand Aksauhinî armies with him (one Aksauhinî army equals large army consisting of 21,870 chariots, as many elephants, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot) and, shooting arrows, he came quickly before the Devî and invested Her and the Deva army and the Brâhmins. At this, a great tumultuous uproar arose and the Devas and the Brâhmins united exclaimed :-- “O Devî! Save us; save us.” The Auspicious Devî, then, for the safety of the Devas and the Dvîjas created round them a luminous circle and She Herself remained outside. The terrible fight, then, ensued between the Devî and the Dânavas. The Sun was covered with their incessant hurling of arrows; and the shooters could not shoot accurately on account of the darkness that then prevailed. Then by the collision of the arrows of both the parties, the arrows caught fire and the battlefield again became filled with light. The quarters on all aides resounded with harsh bow sounds and nothing could be heard. At this moment, came, out of the body of the Devî, the principal S’aktis (forces incarnate)
- Kâlikâ,
- Târinî,
- Sodas’î,
- Tripurâ,
- Bhairabî,
- Kamalâ,
- Bagalâ,
- Mâtangî,
- Tripurâ Sundarî,
- Kâmâksî,
- Tulajâ Devî,
- Jambhinî,
- Mohinî,
- Chchinnamastâ,
and
- ten thousand armed Guhya Kâlîs and others.
- Thirty-two S’aktis,
- sixty-four S’aktis, and
- then innumerable S’aktis,
all armed, came out of the Devî successively. When the S’aktis destroyed one hundred Ak
sauhi
nî forces, Mridangas, conch-shells, lutes and other musical instruments were sounded in the battle-field.