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# Arjuna and the Hunter 13.4

Kirātārjunīya 13.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.13.4)

iha vītabhayās taponubhāvāj jahati vyālamṛgāḥ pareṣu vṛttim  
mayi tāṃ sutarām ayaṃ vidhatte vikṛtiḥ kiṃ nu bhaved iyaṃ nu māyā //

> Here, freed from fear by the power of my austerity, wild beasts abandon their hostility toward others; / yet this one directs it all the more against me: could this be a perversion of nature, or deceit?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya~en-mt.13.4) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (5)

- [Commentary of Jonarāja](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!jonaraja.3.p829) — Jonarāja, Sanskrit
- [Ghaṇṭāpatha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!mallinatha.12.4) — Mallinātha Sūri, Sanskrit
- [Kirātārjunīyaṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!mallinatha-kiratarjuniyatika.12.4) — Mallinātha, Sanskrit
- [Traisargika](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!citrabhanu) — Citrabhānu, Sanskrit
- [Śabdārthadīpikā Rasabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!sabdarthadipikarasabodhini) — Sanskrit

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