Chapter 2 · Dvitīyo’dhyāyaḥ (Second Chapter)
Verse 65
पातितै रथनागाश्वैरसुरैश्च वसुन्धरा। अगम्या साभवत्तत्र यत्राभूत्स महारणः ॥ ६५ ॥
pātitai rathanāgāśvairasuraiśca vasundharā | agamyā sābhavattatra yatrābhūtsa mahāraṇaḥ || 65 ||
Translation
'The earth became impassable there, where that great battle was, due to the fallen chariots, elephants, horses, and demons.'
Word by word
- pātitaiḥ
- by the fallen
- ratha
- chariots
- nāga
- elephants
- aśvaiḥ
- horses
- asuraiḥ
- and by demons
- ca
- and
- vasundharā
- the earth
- agamyā
- impassable
- sā
- she (the earth)
- abhavat
- became
- tatra
- there
- yatra
- where
- abhūt
- was
- saḥ
- that
- mahāraṇaḥ
- great battle
Meaning
This verse describes the grim aftermath of the intense fighting. The battlefield is so utterly littered with the wreckage of war—shattered chariots, dead elephants and horses, and the corpses of demons—that the very ground becomes impassable (agamyā). This vividly conveys the scale of the destruction and the totality of the Goddess's onslaught.