Durga Sapta Shati - English Prose

Parts of Markanedeya Purana

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana

Canto LXXXI - Commencement of the Devī-Māhātmya

The slaughter of Madhu and Kaiṭabha in the account of the Sāvarṇika Manvantara

King Suratha being defeated and driven from his kingdom took refuge in the forest with a muni—He met a vaiśya who had been driven from his home by his relatives, and both asked the muni about the selfish feelings which still possessed them.—He ascribes those feelings to the goddess Mahāmāyā or Great Illusion, and relates how Brahmā lauded the goddess at the end of a former kalpa in order to seek deliverance from the demons Madhu and Kaitabha, and how Viṣṇu awaking slew the demons.

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117155.html

Canto LXXXII - The Devī-Māhātmya: Slaughter of the army of the Asura Mahiṣa

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117157.html

Canto LXXXIII - The Devī-Māhātmya: The slaying of the Asura Mahiṣa

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117158.html

Canto LXXXIV - The Devī-Māhātmya: The Slaying of the Asura Mahiṣa concluded

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117161.html

Canto LXXXV - The Devī-Māhātmya: The goddess’ conversation with the Asura’s messenger

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117163.html

Canto LXXXVI - The Devī-Māhātmya: The slaying of Dhūmralocana

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117165.html

Canto XCIII - The Devī-māhātmya (concluded)

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-markandeya-purana/d/doc117175.html

Ud. 12.12.2026

Pub. 6.9.2017