Matsyapurana 153.68
Matsyapurāṇa 153.68
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153.68
patite tu gaje tasmin siṃhanādo mahānabhūt
sarvataḥ surasainyānāṃ gajabṛṃhitabṛṃhitaiḥ //
At that very instant Kuvera came forward and threw His pondrous club at the elephant's head and by the blow of that the elephant fell down senseless on the ground when a loud cry of victory was raised by the Devas The horses began to neigh, the elephants sounded, the bows were twanged, and Nimi seeing his elephant dead, retreated from the battle field Then, hearing the joyous cry of the Devas the demon was ablaze with rage like the burning of fire at the time of pouring in of the clarified butter After drawing his bow and with his eyes turned red with anger, he thus addressed the Devas—' Wait, wait, for a while' Saying so he directed his charioteer to drive his chariot forward At that time, when his chariot glided on nimbly, it looked as if thousands of suns were rising on Udayâchala The demon made his advance, seated in a chariot bedecked with banners, small bells and moonlike white umbrellas and looked beautiful His advance on his chariot broke the heart of the Devas At that time, the undepressed Indra seeing the demon advancing armed with a bow and arrow, took up His bow and put on a very sharp-pointed arrow to its string and by the shower of His arrows cut down the bow and arrows of the demon Then Jambha, casting away the broken bow, picked up another and sent forth a sharp volley of poisoned arrows He shot ten arrows at the collar bone of Indra, three at his heart and two arrows at his shoulders—65-77
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- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
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