Skanda Purana 7.13.3_258

7.13.3_258

27 haṃsyata - ka. . 28... nyuddhe - ka. kha . 29 tkīrṇasārasāḥ - kha. . 30 dṛṣṭayaḥ (?) . 31 hari (hari) - ka., harit - gha. . 32 pallavāḥ - (?) . 33 saṃraktapallavāḥ - ka. . 34 tadā - ka. .
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mameyañcārusarvāṅgī na taveyaṃ sumadhyamā .
athavā yuddhaśulkāstu muñcaināṃ praharasva mām ..43 . .
ityuktvā vividhā vāco daiteyāḥ kālacoditāḥ .
anyonyavadhamāsādya prajagmuste yamakṣayam . .44. .
hataśiṣṭāstu ye tatra dānavāḥ śāntapauruṣāḥ .
vibudhairugratejobhistepi sarve raṇe hatāḥ . .45 . .
ya idaṃ35 paṭhate viśuddhabuddhirnidhanaṃ36 saṃsadi37 dānaveśvarāṇām .
manujo yuvatīrihaiva loke sa labhedapsarasāṃ samānarūpāḥ ..46 . .
iti skandapurāṇe andhakārayuddhe ūnatriṃśottaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ38

[…] / 716 / "This woman with all lovely limbs is mine, not yours, O fair-waisted one! / Or rather, let her be the prize of battle: release her and strike me!" // 43 // / Having spoken various words like this, the Daiteyas, driven by death, / brought about mutual slaughter and went to the abode of Yama. // 44 // / And those Dānavas surviving the slaughter whose valor was shattered / were all slain in battle by the gods of fierce splendor. // 45 // / Whosoever of purified mind reads of this destruction of the lords of the Dānavas in an assembly, / that mortal man shall obtain in this very world young women resembling the apsarases. // 46 // / Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-ninth chapter in the Skandapurāṇa, in the battle of darkness.