Matsyapurana 150.242
Matsyapurāṇa 150.242
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150.242
tataḥ svalpena kālena ahameva tavāntakaḥ
etacchrutvā vacastasya sārathiḥ kālaneminaḥ
apavāhya rathaṃ dūram anayatkālaneminaḥ //
Then Viṣṇu angrily took up His spear, the terrific Prāsastra and pierced his chest Kālanemi, regaining consciousness took up his sharp trident, the sharp Śakti ringing with golden bells and hurled it on Viṣṇu. It chopped off the left arm of the Lord and on that wounded arm the blood stains looked beautiful like the armlet studded with rubies. Afterwards Viṣṇu became very angry and took up His heavy bow and put seventeen deadly arrows to its strings and hit the demon's chest with nine arrows killed the charioteer with four, cut the banner with one arrow, his bow with two and pierced his left arm with one arrow. The demon felt great agony on being thus wounded. Blood gushed out of his chest and took the appearance of the rising sun. He began to shiver like the Kiñśuka tree blown by the wind. Viṣṇu seeing him shivering like that took up His club, and threw it with great violence at the chariot of Kālanemi which struck his forehead and smashed his coronet to pieces A large volume of blood gushed out of his body which looked like vermilion coming out of the mountain and he fell down senseless in his broken chariot He was only heaving his last breath The Lord then laughed a little and addressed Kālanemi :—' Demon! retire from here fearlessly save your life for the present You are destined to die at my hands after a short time'' Hearing those words, Kalanemi's charioteer took him away in his chariot to a great distance.—231-243
Translations (2)
- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation