With the striking of swords on the armour, the clatter arises.
It seems that the tinkers are fashioning the vessels with the blows of hammer.35.
When the trumpet enveloped by the hide of the male buffalo, the vehicle of Yama, sounded, the armies attacked each other.
(The goddess) was the cause of flight and consternation in the battlefield.
The warriors fall alongwith their horses and saddles.
The wounded ones arise and ask for water while roaming.
Such a great calamity fell on the demons.
From this side the goddess rose like thundering lightning.36.
PAURI
The drummer sounded the trumpet and the armies attacked each other.
All the army of the demons was killed in an instant.
Highly infuriated, Durga killed the demons.
She struck the sword on the head of Sranwat Beej.37.
Innumerable mighty demons were steeped in blood.
Those minarets-like demons in the battlefield
They challenged Durga and came in front of her.
Durga killed all the coming demons.
From their bodies the drains of blood fell on the ground.
Some of the active demons arise out of them laughingly.38.
The enchained trumpets and bugles sounded.
The warriors fought with daggers bedecked with tassels.
The war of bravery was waged between Durga and demos.
There had been extreme destruction in the battlefield.
It appears that the actors, sounding their drum, have jumped into the war-arena.
The dagger penetrated in the corpse seems like a blood stained fish entrapped in the net.
The swords glistened like the lightning in the clouds.
The swords have covered (the battlefield) like the winter-fog.39.
The trumpets were sounded with the beating of drum-stick and the armies attacked each other.
The youthful warriors pulled out their swords from their scabbards.
Sranwat Beej increased himself into innumerable forms.
Which came in front of Durga, highly enraged.
All of them pulled out their swords and struck.
Durga saved herself from all, holding her shield carefully.
The goddess herself then struck her sword looking carefully toward the demons.
She steeped her naked swords in blood.
It appeared that the goddesses gathering together, took their bath in river Saraswati.
The goddess hath killed and thrown on the ground in the battlefield (all the forms of Sranwat Beej).
Immediately then the forms again increased greatly.40.
PAURI
Sounding their drums, conches and trumpets, the warriors have begun the war.
Chandi, being highly enraged, remembered Kali in her mind.
She came out shattering the forehead of Chandi, sounding the trumpet and flying flag of victory.
On manifesting herself, she marched for war, like Bir Bhadra manifesting from Shiva.
The battlefield was surrounded by her and she seemed moving like a roaring lion.
(The demon-king) himself was in great anguish, while exhibiting his anger over the three worlds.
Durga, being enraged, hath marched, holding her disc in her hand and raising her sword.
There before her there were infuriated demons, she caught and knocked down the demons.
Going within the forces of demons, she caught and knocked down the demons.
She threw down by catching them from their hair and raising a tumult among their forces.
She picked up mighty fighters by catching them with the corner of her bow and throwing them