Random Meditations Through Her 1,000 Names - V 

The fifth name states that she manifests to help the devas - Devakaryasamudyata.

For ordinary humans like us, we have our moments where the asuric and daivic nature alternate. This is a dynamic view of the inner realm of human beings. It is unfortunate that we have not used this effective framework to do psychological study of humanity. It is better than the genetic determinism, Freudian and Marxist views of psychology. From the minds of the sages to the minds of the criminals, the way the three guna dynamic creates asuric and daivik personality types and what type surfaces in a person in what circumstances and in what inter-personnel relationships - if they are studied properly then the inner battle that happens in every person can be understood for the benefit of all humanity. Note how different and how humanistic and how more scientific this system is compared to the colonial pseudo-science of ‘criminal castes’ ‘criminal races’ etc.

This is a battle that happens in puranic time. This time is both old and new. The tyranny of Bandasura over the devas is realised at once by the seeker inside his or her own self, once the spiritual seeking starts. Si Ve Radhakrishna Sastri explains this in his commentary on the fifth name thus: