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Bhagavatapurana 6.12.28

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6.12.28

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6.12.28

nabhogambhīravaktreṇa leliholbaṇajihvayā /
daṃṣṭrābhiḥ kālakalpābhirgrasanniva jagattrayam //

27 to 30. Then the Daitya placed his lower jaw on the earth and the upper jaw in the heavens and with his mouth deep like the sky and his tongue terrible like the serpent’s and tusks dreadful like Yama he appeared to devour the three worlds; having enlarged his body to a fearful extent and shunted off mountains with force, powdering the earth under his feet like a great mountain walking about, and approaching Indra he swallowed him with his vehicle (the elephant) even as a great serpent of immense strength and of wonderful powers might devour an elephant. On seeing Indra devoured by Vritra the gods and Prajapathis together with the great sages in great bewilderment cried “woe. woe.”

S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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