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देवतामूर्ति प्रकरणम् Like gold in splendour and colour, the three-eyed one is radiantly beautiful, with full, rounded breasts. (94).
She has one face and a beautiful neck and possesses twenty. arms. The attributes held in her twenty hands are :-a shula (trident), a sword, the shakti weapon, a disc, a noose, a shield, the Abhay mode, a damroo, the shakti weapon, and the nagapasha
magical noose-weapon in her left hands; and a shield, an axe, a goad, a bow, a bell, a flag, a mace, or else. a mirror, mudgar and mace, a conchsell and a thunderbolt in her right. (95). . .
These attributes are held from the uppermost hand downwards. Such is the auspicious goddess who. protects (96). Ai her feet depict a bleeding figure pierced by her trident, with a bloodied brow, and looking upwards, with a noose tied around his neck while the goddess's lion consumes him (97). The glorious goddess with upraised weapons rides an aggressive, attacking, lion while slaying the demon at her feet. Her left foot is raised. Such is the three-eyed Chandi, destroyer of Mahisaşura, the demon.
(98).
चण्डिका देवी के प्रतीहार
चण्डिकायतनोक्तानां कथयिष्याम्यनुक्रमम्। वेताल-करटश्चैव' पिङ्गाक्षो भृकुटिस्तथा ॥१९॥ धूम्रक: कङ्कदश्चैव रक्ताक्षश्च सुलोचनः॥ दंष्ट्राननश्च विकटः कोपस्फुरद्दशनोज्वलः ॥१०० ॥ . तर्जनी खट्वाङ्गं चैवोचं स्याद् डमरुदण्डकौ । वेतालस्तु समाख्यातः सव्यापसव्ये करटकः ॥१०१ ॥ अभयं खड्गखेटं च दण्डं पिङ्गललोचन:॥
1. 2.
मु. वैतालो वरटश्चैव। मु. कण्ठदृक् चैव।
