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69. Geyachakra is another kind of chariot, and
Mantriņi is another name for Syâmalā.
70. Kirichakra, as its name indicates, is a chariot in
the form of a boar, and Daṇḍanātha is another name
for Vārähi.
71. Jvālāmālīnikā is a Sakti who was ordered by
the Devi to construct a fortress of fire, a hundred
yojanas in circumference and thirty yojanas in height.
The Devi's army was stationed afterwards in this
fortress.
73. Nityas are the fifteen deities who preside over
the fifteen days of the bright fortnight (śukla pakşa)
of the month. They destroyed the fifteen leaders of
the armies of Bhanda.
74. Bālā is the nine-year old daughter of Lalitā;
she distinguished herself in the battle by killing the
sons of Bhanda who were thirty in number.
75-76. Vişanga and Visukra are the brothers of
Bhanda. According to the Lalitopakhyānā, Bhanda
himself created them out of his right and left shoul-
ders. The commentator says that the sons of Bhanda
stand for the impurities of the fettered soul. Vişanga
stands for its worldliness and Viśukra for its egoism.
77. The Lalitopakhyāna says that in the course of
the fight, when the Devi heard that her armies were
fettered by the magical yantras of the Asuras, she
looked at the face of her Lord and smiled, and from
that smile arose a god with the head of an elephant.
107
69. Geyachakra is another kind of chariot, and
Mantriņi is another name for Syâmalā.
70. Kirichakra, as its name indicates, is a chariot in
the form of a boar, and Daṇḍanātha is another name
for Vārähi.
71. Jvālāmālīnikā is a Sakti who was ordered by
the Devi to construct a fortress of fire, a hundred
yojanas in circumference and thirty yojanas in height.
The Devi's army was stationed afterwards in this
fortress.
73. Nityas are the fifteen deities who preside over
the fifteen days of the bright fortnight (śukla pakşa)
of the month. They destroyed the fifteen leaders of
the armies of Bhanda.
74. Bālā is the nine-year old daughter of Lalitā;
she distinguished herself in the battle by killing the
sons of Bhanda who were thirty in number.
75-76. Vişanga and Visukra are the brothers of
Bhanda. According to the Lalitopakhyānā, Bhanda
himself created them out of his right and left shoul-
ders. The commentator says that the sons of Bhanda
stand for the impurities of the fettered soul. Vişanga
stands for its worldliness and Viśukra for its egoism.
77. The Lalitopakhyāna says that in the course of
the fight, when the Devi heard that her armies were
fettered by the magical yantras of the Asuras, she
looked at the face of her Lord and smiled, and from
that smile arose a god with the head of an elephant.