Invoking the sacred fire...

Chapter 5The Devi Mahatmya: The Glory of the Goddess
The Two Seekers and the Goddess
देवीमाहात्म्य
The Devi Mahatmya opens as a dispossessed king and a wronged merchant come to the sage Medha, who tells them of the Goddess and her deeds to explain the workings of the world.