Dānavas

Kabandha, the foremost of dānavas, great-armed, spoke to the two:

Rivers, oceans, mountains, gods, gandharvas, and dānavas are not capable of doing what is displeasing to you, as the virtuous are not capable of wronging one who has taken a sacred vow.

"When Vālī was pursuing the dānava named Dundubhi, who had taken the form of a great buffalo, in the direction of Mount Malaya —"

He who is the mighty-armed one, the mantric power among the fierce, who has overcome the strength of the Dānavas;

with her may I overcome my rival wife, as great Indra overcame the Dānavas.

Indra, roaring, struck down the swallower — he smote the Dānava that hissed against him.

When you cleft the great mountain, O Indra, you released the streams and smote the Dānava downward.

Even that one among them rejoicing in his own power — the son of the cloud-mist, the well-grown, the darkness-going — him, Śuṣṇa, the fierce one of the Dānava, the thunderer slew with his thunderbolt, the bull bearing it along.

When you, O Indra, split open the great mountain and let the streams flow down, when you smote the Dānavas.

The *Dānava* is the *yoni* of that *rajas*.

*Gandharvva*, if lacking in *yoga*, becomes *Dānava*.

Kriyāśakti means He creates the entire world, and moreover all the hosts of deities.