“OṀ. I Revere Maa Maha Kaali, Who Holds In Her Divine Hands The Sword, Discus, Mace, Arrow, Bow, Iron Club, Spear, Sling, human head, And Conch; Who Is Three-Eyed, Adorned On All Her Divine Limbs, And Sparkling Like a sapphire; Who Has Ten Faces And Ten Feet; And Whom lord brahma Extolled while lord vishnu slept, in order To Slay madhu and kaitabha.”  

– From The Meditation On Maa Maha Kaali, First Carita, Of “The Devi Mahatmya”