Skandapurana 7.10.29_68

7.10.29_68

vyāsa uvāca
tathā rājani daityendre trailokyādhipatau śubhe .
dharaṇyāñcaiva baddhāyāṃ sukhitāsu prajāsu ca ..1..
sthānebhyaścyāvitā devā hyapratiṣṭhā mahābalāḥ .
kimakurvata1 duḥkhārttā etanme2 śaṃsa sarvaśaḥ ..2..
sanatkumāra uvāca
śṛṇuṣva dharma (?) devānāmavasthā yā babhūva ha .
yadakurvata3 duḥkhārttāstatra sarve yathākramam ..3..
havyavāhognirabhavaddevānāṃ bhāgavarddhanaḥ .
taṃ nirasya tadā daityo vahnimanyaṃ cakāra ha ..4..
tasminkarmaṇi viprendra mantrāstadanugābhavan .
daityadānavabhāgānāṃ vaktāraḥ śubhasādhakāḥ . .5..
tato yajñaḥ svayaṃ daityānupatasthe mahātmanaḥ .
yajñe gate ca daityendrāndevāḥ sarve mṛtā iva ..6..
abhavannaṣṭasaṃjñāśca mandavīryaparākramāḥ .
niḥśrīkāśca nirudyogā nirākrandā samutsukāḥ ..7..
mantradagdhā yathā sarpā vajrapiṣṭā yathācalāḥ .
garutmatābhisandaṣṭāḥ pannagā iva nirviṣāḥ ..8..

Vyāsa said:
While that king, the Daitya ruler, was thus the lord over the three worlds, auspiciously, / and the earth had been bound, and the subjects were happy,
what did the gods do, fallen from their stations, displaced, endowed with great power, / and afflicted with sorrow? Recount this to me in full.
Sanatkumāra said:
Hear what the condition of the gods became, / and what all of them, afflicted with sorrow, did in order.
Fire, the carrier of oblations, had been the increaser of the gods' share. / Having cast him out, the Daitya produced another fire.
In that ritual, O best of brahmins, the mantras followed along with him, / declaring the shares of the Daityas and Dānavas and securing good fortune.
Then the Sacrifice in person attended upon the great-souled Daityas. / And when the Sacrifice had gone over to the Daitya leaders, all the gods were as if dead;
they lost consciousness, their energy and prowess grew faint, / they were stripped of fortune, deprived of effort, having none to call to, filled with distress,
like serpents scorched by mantras, like mountains crushed by the thunderbolt, / like venomous snakes bitten by Garuḍa, drained of poison,