Once when there was this great deluge, when the universe was but an ocean and the Lord vishnu in mystic slumber on adisesa, two demons madhu and kaitaba spring up from the ear wax of the sleeping lord and seek to slay brahma (the father of beings) seated at the naval of the lord vishnu.
Brahma, with a view to awaken the lord extols mahamaya:
creater,sustainer and consumer of the universe;
cause of the embodied vishnu, siva and brahma himself;
goddess of all good fortune, intelligence,contentment and forbearance;
you are at once the most terrible armed with sword, spear,club,discus, conch, bow,arrows, slings and mace AND the exceedingly beautiful.
Devi of delusion thus extolled draws herself out of vishnu's eyes, nose,mouth,arms and heart and appears before brahma.
Vishnu thus rid of inertia, rises from his couch to fight Madhu and Kaitabha with his own arms. The battle goes on five thousand years. Madhu and Kaitabha thus frenzied by their own power lose focus and are defeated and slain.
"I will tell you the glory of the devi again" says Medhas to Suratha.
Here ends the first chapter of the devi mahatmiyam
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