Bhagavatapurana 10.67
English (machine translation) 10.67
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The king said: / I desire to hear further of the wondrous deeds of Rāma, / the infinite, the immeasurable—what other deeds the Lord performed.
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Śrī Śuka said: / There was a monkey named Dvivida, a friend of Naraka, / a counselor of Sugrīva, and the powerful brother of Mainda.
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Seeking revenge for his friend, that monkey devastated the country; / unleashing fire, he burned cities, villages, mines, and cowherd settlements.
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In some places he uprooted mountains and crushed regions with them, / especially Ānarta, where dwelt Hari, the killer of his friend.
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In some places, standing in the middle of the sea, he splashed up its waters with his two arms, / having the strength of ten thousand elephants, and submerged the coastal lands.
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The villain broke the forest trees in the hermitages of the foremost sages, / and polluted the sacrificial fires with feces and urine.
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Arrogant, he cast men and women into the caves of mountain ravines / and sealed them with rocks, as a solitary wasp imprisons a worm.
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Having thus ruined the regions and violated noble women, / he heard exquisite singing and went to Mount Raivataka.
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There he saw Rāma, the lord of the Yadus, wearing a garland of lotuses, / his every limb enchanting to behold, seated amid a company of women,
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singing after having drunk vāruṇī, his eyes unsteady with intoxication, / resplendent in body like an elephant in rut.
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The wicked ape, climbing onto a branch, shaking the trees, / made chattering noises, flaunting himself.
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Seeing the audacity of that monkey, the young women, naturally fickle / and fond of laughter, who were Baladeva's consorts, laughed aloud.
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The ape mocked them with gestures such as knit brows right in their presence, / showing them his buttocks, while being watched by Rāma.
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Enraged, Bala, the best among warriors, hurled a rock at him; / but the ape dodged the stone and, seizing a jar of wine,
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the rogue made fun of him, provoking his fury and laughing; / smashing the jar, the vile creature tore at Bala's clothes.
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Having insulted him, the powerful [ape], arrogant with pride, committed outrages. / Seeing his insolence and the regions ravaged by him, [Balarāma reflected:]
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Enraged and wishing to slay his enemy, he took up his club and plow; / Dvivida also, possessing great prowess, raised a śāla tree with his hand
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and running forward swiftly, struck Bala on the head with it. / Saṅkarṣaṇa, however, just like a mountain [meeting] a falling [object],
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the mighty one received it upon his head and struck him with Sunanda. / With his forehead smashed by the club, [the ape] shone with streams of blood
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like a mountain with red ochre, paying no heed to the blow. / Tearing off another [tree] again and stripping its leaves with his might,
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he struck with it in great fury, but Bala cut it into a hundred pieces. / Then with rage he struck with another, and that too [Bala] cut into a hundred pieces.
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Fighting thus with the Lord, as tree after tree was shattered again and again, / pulling up trees from all around, he made the forest devoid of trees.
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Then, intolerant, he hurled a shower of stones upon Bala; / the club-wielding [Lord] effortlessly pulverized all of them in sport.
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That lord of monkeys, clenching his palm-tree-like arms into fists, / approached the son of Rohiṇī and battered him on the chest with both of them.
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The lord of the Yadus also, having abandoned his club and plow with both arms, / struck him angrily on the collarbone; he fell down vomiting blood.
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As he fell, O bull among the Kurus, the mountain with its crags and trees / shook like a boat on water caught in the wind.
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Cries of "Victory!" and "Salutations!" and "Well done, well done!" / rose in the sky from the gods, Siddhas, and chief sages, raining down flowers.
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Having thus slain Dvivida, who had brought turmoil to the world, / the Lord entered his own city while being praised by the people.
Translations (1)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
Linked texts (1)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit