Hindu — Śākta
The goddess promises to return
The goddess spoke: I am ready to bestow a boon. O ye hosts of gods, choose whatever boon ye desire in your mind; I grant it as a thing that benefits the worlds. The gods spoke: O queen of all, complete thou thus indeed the pacification of every trouble of the three worlds, and the destruction of our enemies. The goddess spoke: When the twenty-eighth age has arrived, in the Vaivasvata Manv-antara, two other great Asuras shall be born, S'umbha and Niśumbha. Then born as the offspring of Yaśodá's womb in the cowherd Nanda's house, and dwelling on the Vindhya mountains, I will destroy them both. And again becoming incarnate in a very terrible form on the face of the earth, I will slay the Vaiprac'itta Dánavas; and when I devour those fierce and great Vaiprac'itta Asuras, my teeth shall become red like the flowers of the pomegranate. Hence the gods in Svarga and men in the world of mortals praising me shall always talk of me as “Red-toothed.” And again after a period of a hundred years during which rain and water shall fail, praised by the munis I shall be born, but not womb-begotten, on the earth. Then because I shall behold the munis with a hundred eyes, mankind shall therefore celebrate me as “Hundred-eyed.” Next, O ye gods, I shall support the whole world with the life-sustaining vegetables, which shall grow out of my own body, during a period of heavy rain. I shall gain fame on the earth then as S'ákambharí; and in that very period I shall slay the great Asura named Durgama. And again when taking a terrible form on mount Himavat I shall destroy Rákshasas for the sake of delivering the munis, all the munis bowing their bodies reverently shall laud me then; hence my name “The terrible goddess” shall become celebrated. When Arunáksha shall work great trouble in the three worlds, I shall take a bee-like form, the form of innumerable bees, and shall slay the great Asura for the welfare of the three worlds, and folk shall then extol me everyone as Bhrámarí. Thus whenever trouble shall arise caused by the Dánavas, at each such time I shall become incarnate and accomplish the foes' destruction.