Bhagavatapurana 3.19

English (machine translation) 3.19

Language: English

3.19.1

Maitreya said: / Hearing the sincere, nectar-like words of Brahmā, / smiling with a glance full of love, he accepted them.

3.19.2

Then jumping up, the Lord, born of the senses, / struck the enemy on the jaw with his mace as he paced before him without fear.

3.19.3

Struck by the demon’s mace, it was knocked from the Lord’s hand / and fell whirling away; that was indeed a wondrous sight.

3.19.4

Though he had gained an advantage then, he did not strike [Hari] who was disarmed, / observing the rules of combat and thereby provoking Viṣvaksena to fury.

3.19.5

When the mace was knocked away and a cry of dismay arose, / the almighty Lord respected that righteousness and remembered his Sudarśana disc.

As he stood with his disc ready, locked in battle with the foremost of his attendants [born] as the vilest son of Diti, / wondrous cries arose from the sky-dwellers who did not know this secret: “May you have good fortune! Slay him!”

3.19.7

Seeing him standing before him with the wheel in hand, his eyes like lotus petals, / and with his senses flooded with rage at the sight, he hissed in anger and bit his lip.

3.19.8

With dreadful tusks, gazing with eyes as if burning him, / leaping forward with his mace, he struck Hari, shouting: “You are slain!”

3.19.9

With his left foot, O virtuous one, the Lord, the sacrificial boar, / playfully struck aside that [mace] of wind-like speed, while the enemy looked on.

3.19.10

And he said: “Pick up your weapon and try again, if you wish to conquer!” / Thus spoken to, he then struck again, roaring loudly.

3.19.11

Seeing it flying toward him, the Lord stood firm / and effortlessly caught it as it arrived, like Garuḍa catching a female serpent.

3.19.12

With his prowess frustrated, his pride shattered, the great demon, / his luster gone, refused the mace as it was offered back by Hari.

3.19.13

He seized a three-pointed trident, blazing like avid fire, / as if performing black magic against a Brahmin who is the embodiment of sacrifice.

3.19.14

Hurled with power by the great warrior demon, shining with radiating beams in the midst of the sky, / Hari severed that trident with his disc of sharp rim, as Indra once cut the dropped wing of Garuḍa.

3.19.15

When his trident was cut into pieces by Hari’s disc, the demon rushed forward / and struck Hari’s broad, majestic chest with a hard fist, roaring in mounting fury, and then vanished.

3.19.16

Thus struck by him, O Vidura, the Lord, the primeval boar, / did not waver in the least, like an elephant struck with a garland of flowers.

3.19.17

Then he produced manifold illusory sorcery against Hari, the master of yogic power; / seeing this, the created beings were terrified, believing the dissolution of the universe had arrived.

3.19.18

Fierce winds blew, scattering blinding dust; / stones rained down from all directions as if discharged from slings.

3.19.19

The sky lost its stars behind masses of clouds with lightning and thunder, / constantly raining down pus, hair, blood, feces, urine, and bones.

3.19.20

Mountains were seen discharging various weapons, O sinless one, / and naked demonesses appeared, brandishing tridents, their hair disheveled.

3.19.21

Violent, extremely cruel cries were hurled forth / by many Yakṣas and Rākṣasas on foot, horses, chariots, and elephants, attacking as aggressors.

3.19.22

To destroy the demonic powers of illusion that had been manifested, / the Lord of three sacrifices dispatched His beloved weapon, the Sudarśana disc.

3.19.23

At that moment, a sudden trembling arose in Diti’s heart / as she remembered her husband’s words, and blood flowed from her breast.

3.19.24

When his illusions were destroyed, he approached Keśava once more / and, trying to clasp him in his fury, saw that He stood outside [his grasp].

3.19.25

As he struck with fists as hard as thunderbolts, Adhokṣaja / struck him at the root of the ear with His hand, just as the lord of the Maruts struck the son of Tvaṣṭṛ.

3.19.26

Struck by the Conqueror of the universe with seeming disdain, his limbs spinning and his eyes rolled up, / with his arms, feet, and hair shattered, he fell like a lordly mountain uprooted by the wind.

3.19.27

Seeing him lying on the earth, his luster unimpaired, his fangs terrible, biting his lip, / Brahmā and the others who had arrived praised [him]: “Ah, who indeed could attain such a passing?

3.19.28

He whom yogins meditate upon in secret through yogic absorption, desiring liberation from the unreal subtle body— / struck by His foot, this foremost of Daityas cast off his body while beholding His face!”

3.19.29

“These two were his attendants who went to an evil realm because of a curse; / after a few more births, they will indeed regain their station.”

3.19.30

The gods said:
“Obeisance, obeisance to You, the continuity of all sacrifices, who have assumed a form of pure purity for the preservation [of the universe]! / By good fortune this tormentor of the worlds has been slain; through devotion to Your feet, O Lord, we are at peace.”

Translations (1)

The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English

Linked texts (1)

Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit