(Having issued these instructions) the ten headed RŒva˜a returned to his palace; used as a synonym for a curved sword, it particularly denotes the sword possessed by RŒva˜a as a gift from BhagavŒn Ýa˘kara, to whom it originally belonged. In Her utter despair S¶tŒ looked to RŒva˜a’s sword alone to come to Her rescue and end Her miserable existence; and the sowrd, though cruel and dreadful to all appearance, appeared to Her as agreeable and soothing as the moon’s rays to a burning heart. The appellation ‘CandrahŒsa’ thus sounded most appropriate to Her. while the host of fiendesses in the AÜoka grove assumed various kinds of hideous forms and intimidated S¶tŒ. (10)