Skandapurana 7.14.49_155

7.14.49_155

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sa tena suprahāreṇa rudhirasrāvacitritaḥ .
svarṇadhāturasodgārī nīlācala ivābabhau ..5..
vṛtre ghūrṇati daityendra parighābhihate bhṛśam .
vinedu5rdevagandharvāḥ pūjayanto gaṇeśvaram ..6..
tataścirāt samāśvasya vṛtro dānavapuṅgavaḥ .
gire: śrṛṅgaṃ samutpāṭaya śaṅakukarṇamadhāvata .
sa tasya tatsavṛkṣarkṣaṃ sadhātūpalapannagam .
gaṇeśvarāyācalāgraṃ cikṣepa ca rarāsa ca .. 8 ..
tadvṛtrabhujanirmuktaṃ giryagraśikharaṃ mahat .
bibheda nandī vajreṇa keśarīva mataṅgajam ..9..
atha tau gaṇadaityendrau bhujairbhujagakopanau .
sametau ghorasaṃhrādau niyuddhakuśalāvubhau ..8.140.10..
niṣṭanantāvivādityau dīpyamānāvivānalau9 ..
garjamānāviva ghanau bṛhantāviva kuñjarau ..11..
mattāviva ca śārdūlau niḥśvasantāvivoragau .
nardamānau yathā siṃhau valgamānau vṛṣāviva10 ..12..

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From that heavy blow, variegated by streams of blood, / he looked like the Blue Mountain pouring forth molten gold. / As Vṛtra, the king of the Daityas, spun around violently struck by the iron club, / the gods and Gandharvas cried out in praise of the lord of gaṇas. / Then, having recovered after a long while, Vṛtra, the foremost of the Dānavas, / tore up a mountain peak and ran at Śaṅkukarṇa. / He hurled at the lord of gaṇas that mountain crest, complete with trees, bears, minerals, rocks, and serpents, and roared. / Nandin shattered with his thunderbolt that huge mountain peak hurled from Vṛtra's arms, / as a lion tears an elephant. / Then those two, the lord of the gaṇas and the king of the Daityas, whose arms were like angry serpents, / came together with terrible shouts, both skilled in wrestling, / like two roaring suns, like two blazing fires, / like two rumbling clouds, like two huge elephants, / like two rutted tigers, like two hissing serpents, / like two roaring lions, like two leaping bulls,