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Matsyapurana 150.192

Matsyapurāṇa 150.192

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Sanskrit

150.192

jaghnatuḥ samare daityaṃ kṛtāntānalasaṃnibham
tamāsādya raṇe ghoram ekaikaḥ ṣaṣṭibhiḥ śaraiḥ //

Besides these, that valiant demon also killed innumerable kotis of Deva warriors In that way, when the Devas were greatly defeated and almost annihilated the two Aśvinîkumaras, wearing a wonderful white armour, came out boiling with indignation, and each of them began to send forth a volley of 60 arrows at a time on that demon shining like fire When the Aśvinîkumaras began to hit the demon with their arrows and pierced his chest he was in great pain and took up the eight edged keen quoit and with it pierced the yoke of the Aśvinîkumâras chariot and picking up his bow, he shot poisoned arrows on the forehead of the physicians and let out innumerable arrows in the air The sky became overcast Then Aśvinîkumâras also cut down the arrows of the demon by their own which amazed the latter He got fearfully vexed and took his formidable club of iron, and brandishing it with great force hurled it at the chariot of Aśvinīkumâras, seeing which they vacated the chariot, and the ponderous club powdered the chariots and crushed the earth. Seeing such heroic feat of the demon's weapon, the Aśvinīkumâras let out their terrible vajrakhya astra on the demon and over it bolts were showered.—191-202.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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