Bhagavatapurana 10.59

English (machine translation) 10.59

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The king said: / Tell me how Bhauma was slain by the Lord, and how those women / had been imprisoned, and of this valor of the wielder of the Śārṅga bow.

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Śrī Śuka said: / Having been informed of Bhauma's conduct by Indra, whose parasol had been stolen, / whose kin [Aditi] had her earrings stolen, and whose dwelling place on Mount Meru had been seized,

accompanied by his wife and mounted on Garuḍa, he went to the city of Prāgjyotiṣa, / which was impassable due to mountain-fortresses, weapon-fortresses, water, fire, and wind, / and surrounded on all sides by ten thousand dreadful, strong snares of Mura.

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With his mace he shattered the mountains, the weapon-fortresses with his arrows, / the fire, water, and wind with his discus, and the snares of Mura with his sword.

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With the sound of his conch [he shattered] the war-machines and the hearts of the valiant; / with his heavy mace, the wielder of the mace broke down the rampart.

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Hearing the sound of Pāñcajanya, terrifying like the thunderbolt at the end of the cosmic age, / the sleeping five-headed demon Mura arose from the water.

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Lifting his trident, very difficult to behold, terrifying with the brilliance of the sun and fire at the end of a cosmic age, / seeming to swallow the three worlds with his five mouths, he rushed at the son of Tārkṣya like a serpent.

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Whirling his trident, he hurled it with force at Garuḍa and roared with his five mouths; / filling the heaven and earth, all directions, and the sky, that great sound enveloped the cosmic shell.

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As that three-pronged [spear] flew toward Garuḍa, Hari forcefully split it into three pieces with two arrows; / he struck him in his faces with arrows, and he too hurled a mace at Him in rage.

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In that battle, the elder brother of Gada shattered into a thousand pieces with his mace that incoming mace; / as he rushed forward raising his arms, the unconquered Lord effortlessly took off his heads with his discus.

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Lifeless, his heads severed, he fell into the water like a mountain whose peaks were sheared by Indra’s power. / His seven sons, aggrieved by their father's death, nursing vengeful wrath, arose for battle:

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Tāmra, Antarikṣa, Śravaṇa, Vibhāvasu, / Vasu, Nabhasvān, and Aruṇa the seventh.

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Placing Pīṭha, the commander of the army, in front in battle, / dispatched by Bhauma, holding weapons, they marched forth.

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Having approached, furious in their anger, they hurled arrows, swords, maces, / javelins, spears, and tridents at the unconquered Lord; / the Lord of unfailing prowess cut that heap of weapons to pieces with his own arrows.

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He dispatched to the realm of Yama those leaders headed by Pīṭha, / their heads, thighs, arms, feet, and armor sheared; / seeing his generals thus repulsed by the discus and arrows of Acyuta, / Naraka, the son of the earth, unable to endure, marched forth with elephants streaming with temple-fluid, born of the ocean.

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Seeing Kṛṣṇa with his wife, mounted upon Garuḍa / like a lightning-bearing cloud above the sun,

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he hurled a hundred-killer at Him, / and all his warriors struck simultaneously.

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That army of Bhauma, the Lord, the elder brother of Gada, / with sharp arrows fitted with colorful feathers,

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That army of Bhauma, the Lord, the elder brother of Gada, / with sharp arrows fitted with colorful feathers,

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instantly reduced to bodies with severed arms, thighs, and necks, / its horses and elephants slain.

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Whatever weapons and magical missiles were discharged by the warriors, O best of Kurus, / Hari cut down, one by one, with three sharp arrows.

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Carried by Suparṇa, who struck the elephants with his wings— / beaten by Garuḍa with beak, wings, and claws, the elephants

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entered the city, distressed, while Naraka fought in the battle. / Seeing his own army routed and afflicted by Garuḍa,

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the son of the Earth struck him with a spear, by which even the thunderbolt had been repelled. / Struck by it, he did not tremble, like an elephant hit by a garland.

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His effort futile, the son of the Earth seized a trident to kill Acyuta. / Even before he could release it, Hari took off Naraka's head / as he sat upon his elephant, with his razor-rimmed discus.

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Fallen upon the earth, brilliant with earrings and adorned with an attractive crown, it shone; / crying 'Alas, alas!' and 'Bravo!', the sages and the chiefs of the gods spoke praise, scattering garlands upon Mukunda.