Skandapurana 7.11.24_68

7.11.24_68

sanatkumāra uvāca
atha te taṃ mṛgaṃ vyāsa dānavā bhīmagarjanāḥ .
āyudhaiḥ samabhikruddhāḥ saṃtatakṣustadā1 bhṛśam . . 1 . .
te mṛgā iva śārdūlaṃ siṃhapotaṃ gajā iva .
ājaghnurdānavāḥ kruddhā varāhaṃ śastravṛṣṭibhiḥ . .2..
sa cāpi mṛgaśārdūla upaviśya mahodadhim .
apopibat samāviśya vahnivadvaḍavāmukham ..3 . .
tatheritāni tairdaityairāyudhāni sahasraśaḥ .
vyādāya sumahadvaktraṃ jagrāsa ca rarāsa ca ..4. .
grasitvā tāni sarvāṇi śastrāṇi sa2 mahābalaḥ .
dānavānprati saṃcakre vegaṃ sindhurivāparaḥ . .5..
gajānprati yathā siṃhaḥ siṃhān śarabharāḍiva .
garutmān bhujagān yadvacchārdūlaśca mṛgāniva ..6. .
meghavṛndaṃ yathā vāyuḥ kapotāniva pakṣirāṭ .
tathā sa bhagavān vyāsa dānavānprati lokapaḥ ..7..
vegaṃ cakre yathā kṣipramindriyaṃ prati vai manaḥ .
āsādya ca sa tāndaityān mahājaladaniḥsvanaḥ . .8 . .
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Sanatkumāra said:
Then those Dānavas of fearful roar, highly enraged, O Vyāsa, / violently hacked at that beast with weapons then, / as beasts [attack] a tiger or elephants [attack] a lion cub; / enraged, the Dānavas struck the Boar with showers of weapons.
And he too, the tiger among beasts, sitting upon the great ocean / and entering it, drank up the waters like the fire of the submarine mare's mouth.
Likewise, opening his vast mouth, he swallowed down and roared at / the thousands of weapons discharged by those Daityas.
Having swallowed all those weapons, that exceedingly mighty one / directed his swift charge against the Dānavas like a second ocean;
as a lion against elephants, as the king of śarabhas against lions, / as Garuḍa against serpents, and as a tiger against deer,
as the wind against a mass of clouds, as the king of birds against doves, / so that blessed lord, the protector of the worlds, O Vyāsa, against the Dānavas
made his swift charge, just as the mind swiftly turns toward a sense-organ. / And approaching those Daityas, with a voice resounding like a vast cloud,
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