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Matsya Purana 176.56

Matsyapurāṇa 176.56

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Sanskrit

176.56

samayenāsurendreṇa pariṣvaktastato raṇe.
kālanemirbabhau daityaḥ sa viṣṇuriva mandaraḥ .. 176.56 ..

The whole universe became radiant with the lustre of Agni Kâlanemi hearing about the violence of Agni and Vâyu appeared on the field He was wearing a coronet shining like the Sun and was bedecked with tingling armlets and ornaments He looked tall like Mandara mountain, golden coloured, he had hundred arms, hundred faces, hundred heads and appeared like a mountain with hundred peaks. He appeared like a blazing fire, measuring the sky with his massive arms, kicking the mountains with his feet, driving away the heavy banks of rain clouds by his breath, with his eyes knitted, persecuting the Devas, covering all the directions, looking like the messenger of death He, stretching his arms clustered with heavy fingers, addressed the demons saying 'Demons! you should all get up now" He overspread all the quarters with arrows and seemed ready to burn the Devas He looked like death at the time of the dissolution of the universe All the Devas were bewildered to see Kâlanemi. All the beings looked upon that persevering Kâlanemi as Nârâyaṇa, he began to roam on the battlefield pacing his very tall legs to and fro and thereby raising wind and rolling as it were the fir-mament The Devas were all very much terrified Maya, the lord of the Asuras then embraced him Kâlanemi then with Viṣṇu looked beautiful like the Mandara mountain Indra and the other Devas were deeply pained to see the demon Kâlanemi advancing as if the death of all—46 61

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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