Chandi Satakam — Sri Bana Bhatta

From Sri D.S.Sarma

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At last the Goddess Chandi, who had forfeited herself with a cup of wine, leapt on the Asura and kicked him on the neck with her foot, struck him with her spear and cut-off his head with the sword. This detail of the Devi kicking the demon half-dead with her foot is important, for almost the whole of Chandi-Sataka of Sri Bana Bhatta is based on it. Bana’s poem is an oe more the foot of the Goddess than to the Goddess herself.