The following is the gloss to 614th Name of Shreemati Durga-Devi from "Shree Bhavani-Devi-Sahasranama-Stuti (link to the E-Book).
६१४. रक्तबीजवधोदृप्ता
614. raktabIjavadhodRRiptA
"Beauty as well as Valour of Durga is incomparable. She bestows wealth both material and spiritual , dispels difficulties and annihilates the evil ones.
She is the embodiment of yajna (sacritice), ParaVidya (the highest knowledge of spirituality) as well as Apara-Vidya (knowledge of the secular sciences). Once the gods overpowered by the demons Sumbha and Nishumbha ran to Himalayas and supplicated to The Devi. They sang AparajitaStotra, praising Her as "The Unconquerable".
The Goddess manifested Herself as Kaushika Durga, emanating from The Body of Parvati, who Herself became Kali, The Dark One, and killed the intervening giants Dhumralocana, Canda and Munda.
Only the battle with Raktabija was long drawn. Here some special efforts were needed by The Devi since the demon displayed mysterious power to multiply himself through the drops of blood spilled in the battle.
Even the SaptaMatrkas, who came out of Her Body to battle were helpless. Then in the form of Kali, the fierce Black Goddess, She spread Her extensive tongue and drank away all the blood gushing out of Raktabija. Thus the emergence of more demons was prevented and Durga was able to exterminate the fierce demon.
The demons mentioned above known as asuras. They are archetypes of highly egoistic people who revel in a life of the pleasures of the body and sense organs.
Symbolically they represent various stages and states of egoism as shown below:
Dhumralocana, ‘the smoky eyed’ stands for the grossest state of ignorance and egoism.
Canda (= fierce) is the horrible side of egoism in human beings
Munda (=low) is the low profile of egoism in man
Raktabija represents a more subtle state of egoism which multiplies itself to keep troubles continued. It is the endless activity of the mind—one thought leading to the other.
Sumbha (= to shine) and Nisumbha signify more enlightened aspects of egoism.
Goddess Durga Alone can destroy this fearful and deluding egoism that raises its head at gross, subtle and subtler levels in creatures".
Jankinath Kaul "Kamal",
"BHAVANI NAMA SAHASRA STUTI
from RUDRAYAMALA TANTRA", p. 296
