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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 9]
भूतस्य साक्षाद्ब्रह्मर्षिसुतस्य निवैरस्य सर्वभूतसुहृदः द्वनायामप्यननुमतमालम्भनं तदुपलभ्य ब्रह्मतेजसातिदुर्विषहेण दन्दह्यमानेन वपुषा सहसोच्चचार सैव देवी भद्रकाली ॥ १७ ॥
iti teṣām vṛṣalānām rajas-tamaḥ-prakṛtīnām dhana-mada-raja- utsikta-manasām bhagavat-kalā-vīra-kulam kadarthī-kṛtyotpathena svairam viharatām hiṁsā-vihārāṇām karmāti-dāruṇam yad brahma- bhūtasya sākṣād brahmarṣi-sutasya nirvairasya sarva-bhūta-suhṛdaḥ sūnāyām apy ananumatam ālambhanam tad upalabhya brahma- tejasāti-durviṣaheṇa dandahyamānena vapuṣā sahasoccacāṭa saiva devī bhadra-kālī.
iti—thus; teṣām—of them; vṛṣalānām—the śūdras, by whom all religious principles are destroyed; rajaḥ—in passion; tamaḥ—in ig- norance; prakṛtīnām—having natures; dhana-mada—in the form of in- fatuation by material wealth; rajaḥ—by passion; utsikta—puffed up; manasām—whose minds; bhagavat-kalā—an expansion of the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vīra-kulam—the group of elevated personalities (the brāhmaṇas); kat-arthī-kṛtya—dis- respecting; utpathena—by a wrong path; svairam—independently; viharatām—who are proceeding; hiṁsā-vihārāṇām—whose business is to commit violence against others; karma—the activity; ati-dāruṇam— very fearful; yat—that which; brahma-bhūtasya—of a self-realized person born in a brāhmaṇa family; sākṣāt—directly; brahma-ṛṣi- sutasya—of the son born of a brāhmaṇa exalted in spiritual conscious- ness; nirvairasya—who had no enemies; sarva-bhūta-suhṛdaḥ—a well- wisher to all others; sūnāyām—at the last moment; api—even though; ananumatam—not being sanctioned by law; ālambhanam—against the desire of the Lord; tat—that; upalabhya—perceiving; brahma-tejasā— with the effulgence of spiritual bliss; ati-durviṣaheṇa—being too bright and unbearable; dandahyamānena—burning; vapuṣā—with a physical body; sahasā—suddenly; uccacāṭa—fractured (the deity); sā—she; eva—indeed; devī—the goddess; bhadra-kālī—Bhadra Kālī.
TRANSLATION
All the rogues and thieves who had made arrangements for the worship of goddess Kālī were low minded and bound to the modes