Skandapurana 7.11.24_42

7.11.24_42

kva ca śrutaṃ vā dṛṣṭaṃ vā mṛgāṇāmasureśvarāḥ .
manuṣyavadbāhuyuddhaṃ puruṣaissaha saṃyuge ..14..
eṣa viṣṇurdurācāro durātmā daityakaṇṭakaḥ .
aśaktaḥ svena vīryeṇa māyāmāsthāya saṃsthitaḥ ..15..
sanatkumāra uvāca
tatastaṃ balavān kruddho dhanuṣā sosureśvaraḥ .
śarairavākirad vyāsa bahubhirvirarāsa ca ..1 6..
andhako vipracittiśca sarve te daityadānavāḥ .
avākiran śaraistīkṣṇaiḥ śataśotha sahasraśaḥ ..17..
atha daivaḥ susaṃrabdhai12rviddhastai13 rdānavairbhṛśam .
śuśubhe bhāskarakaraiḥ saṃviddho himavāniva .. 18..
sa vegaṃ balavat kṛtvā vidhunvānaḥ śarān śitān14 .
salīlaṃ prayayau devaḥ prahlādaṃ prati dānavam15 . . 19. .
sa gatvā tasya sahasā sārathiṃ rathameva ca .
daṃṣṭrābhiśca karābhyāñca nāmaśeṣaṃ cakāra ha . .8.103.2 0 ..
tato rathādavaplutya hanyamānopi dānavaiḥ .
rathadhvajena16 taṃ daityaṃ mūrdhni devobhijaghnivān ..2 1 ..
prahlādopi tatotpatya17 gadayā bhīmarūpayā .
ājaghānorasi kruddhaṃ vighno dharme yathā sthitam ..22. .
sa tenābhihato devo muktvā tasya rathaṃ tadā .
tameva deśamāyātaḥ pūrvaṃ yatrābhavat sthitaḥ . .23 . .
tatondhako vipracittiḥ śambaraḥ kālaśambaraḥ .
śarairāśīviṣākārairbibhidurnandivardhanam . .24..

'Where has it been heard or seen, O lords of Asuras, / that beasts engage in wrestling with men in battle, like human beings?
This is Viṣṇu of wicked conduct, evil-souled, a thorn to the Daityas, / who, incapable through his own valour, stands here resorting to illusion.'
Sanatkumāra said: / Then that powerful lord of Asuras, enraged, O Vyāsa, covered him / with many arrows from his bow and shouted fiercely.
Andhaka, Vipracitti, and all those Daityas and Danavas / showered him with sharp arrows by the hundreds and thousands.
Then the divine one, pierced exceedingly by those deeply enraged Danavas, / shone like Mount Himālaya covered with the rays of the sun.
Gathering powerful speed, shaking off the sharp arrows, / the lord playfully advanced against the Danava Prahlāda.
Having rushed to his chariot, he forthwith reduced the charioteer and the chariot / to mere names by means of his tusks and forelegs.
Then, springing down from the chariot though struck by the Danavas, / the god struck that Daitya on the head with the chariot's banner-pole.
Prahlāda, too, leaping up then with a club of dreadful appearance, / struck the enraged one on the chest, like an obstacle standing in the way of righteousness.
Struck by him, the god abandoned his chariot then, / and returned to that very place where he had stood previously.
Then Andhaka, Vipracitti, Śambara, and Kālaśambara / pierced Nandivardhana with arrows resembling venomous serpents.