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# Skandapurana 7.14.p54

Skandapurāṇa 7.14.p54

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.14.p54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.14.p54)

cakāra soṅagirā devo vajravyūhasya kuḍmalam . .52 ..  
kuḍmalāgre caturbāhuḥ kapīndravadanorihā .  
sthito vajrodyatakaro nandī dinakaraprabhaḥ . . 53 . .  
kuṇḍodaraṃ nandiṣeṇaṃ51 ghaṇṭākarṇaṃ mahodaram .  
paścārdhe tasya vajrasya kuḍmalaṃ sannyaveśayat52 . . 54. .  
somanandī tu tasyāgre vyāghravaktro gaṇeśvaraḥ .  
sārkacandrāyutaprakhyaḥ53 sthito vai paṭṭiśāyudhaḥ54 ..5 5 ..  
rudrāṇāṃ55 dvārapālāśca rudrā rudrasutāśca ye .

> the divine descendant of Aṅgiras made them the bud of the thunderbolt-array. / At the tip of the bud, four-armed, with the face of a king of monkeys, / standing with a thunderbolt raised in hand, was Nandī, radiant as the sun. / Kuṇḍodara, Nandiṣeṇa, Ghaṇṭākarṇa, and Mahodara: / he stationed them as a bud in the rear half of that thunderbolt. / Before him, Somanandī, tiger-faced lord of the Gaṇas, / looking like ten thousand suns and moons, stood armed with a paṭṭiśa. / The doorkeepers of the Rudras, the Rudras, and the sons of Rudra who were there,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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