Var Bhagauti Ji
Drums are being continuously beaten and armies confront each other. Both the gods and the demons have taken out their swords and taken positions to practice them. Blood flows from their bodies as the colour flows from the cloth. The female of the demons look at this clash sitting in lofty attics. Durga’s courage has caused confusion among the demons.||11||
 

Many drums were beaten on both sides, but the demons did not give up the (battle) field. All the warriors roar like lions. The demons stretch their bows full to shoot arrows at Durga. ||12||
 
The drums tied on the backs of camels and horses were beaten in the field. Chief demons, their bodies besmeared with dust, dark skinned, matted hair, nostrils as wide as alcoves and heavy moustaches moved upfront before the goddess. Gods like Indra had already fought against them but could not subdue these brave demons. Encircling Durga they roared like dark clouds.||13||
 

Drums were being beaten. There was a fierce contest between the two armies. The brave demons were able to put up a siege around Durga. The demons were rather bold, and they knew not of running away from the (battle) field. They sacrificed their lives at the hands of the gods in the battlefield and thus went to heaven. ||14||
 

Innumerable drums were sounded as the opponent armies clashed against each other. The gods and demons fought like two crazy oxen. The demons, full of anger, caused heavy casualties. The swords taken out of their sheaths looked like saws . the huge bodies of warriors in the battlefield looked like minarets. The goddess herself laid to ground the mountain-sized demons. They never accepted defeat and rushed forward. However Durga slayed all the demons with her sword.||15||
 
Pauri
As the clarion-call came the warriors entered the battlefield with renewed vigour. Mahikhasur roared in the battlefield like clouds “The warrior like Indra suffered defeat at my hands, what to me is poor Durga who has waged this war?”||16||
 

Drums were repeatedly sounded and the clash continued between the opposing hords. The arrows shot like mediators in between the two forces. Innumerable warriors lost their lives as these arrows struck them. They fell as columns are felled by lightening. The bodies with loose hair of demons lay unattached in the field as if ascetics with matted hair lay under the intoxication of hemp.||17||
 

Both the armies clashed as the drums were sounded. A very proud leader of the demons (Mahikhasur) attacked Durga. He was accompanied and supported by several brave chiefs. Mahikhasur took a heavy khunda or double edged sword of of his sheath. Warriors rushed forward with enthusiasm and there was fierce fighting. Blood flowed as water flows from the matted hair of Shiva.||18||
 
Drums mounted on camels were sounded and the fighting went on. Durga also pulled he sword out of its sheath. Durga made a very heavy blow of the sword which struck the skull (of Mahikhasur) and broke into small pieces, it reached the mouth and finally sawed the body. Then it went through the rug on horse back and the horses body and hit the earth. Having pierced the ground it hit the horn of the (mythological) bull supporting the earth and then having killed the enemy touched the body of the tortoise beneath it. Dead bodies lay there like trunks of trees felled by carpenters. The battlefield seemed to have become a dough of blood and flesh. This story of sword (used with such valour) will be remembered throughout the four aeons. Thus was spent the difficult and painful moment of the life of Mahikhasur.||19||
     
 
Having killed Mahikhasur the empress of the fourteen realms, Durga, made her lion dance about. She killed many brave leading demons. Many proud demons could not even ask for water. They lay on the field as if some Pathans acquired a state of bliss after listening tomusic. In the battlefield blood flowed like flood water. The injured warriors moved as if some teetotaller had taken huge quantities of five quality liquour.||20||
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