Skandapurana 7.15.9_52

7.15.9_52

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tatondhako dānavalokasārathiḥ svasārathiṃ12 prāha vivṛttalocanaḥ13 .
śukraṃ14 prati prāpaya sārathe māṃ sa15 naḥ sadā huḥkhaharo guruśca16 .. 13 ..
sa taṃ rathaṃ dānavayūthapāsthitaṃ tatheti ca procya sadaśvasaṃyutam .
saṃ17 prāpayāmāsa payodanisvanaṃ sa yatra śukro grahasattamo dvija . .14..
iti skandapurāṇe gaṇayuddhe pañcacatvāriṃśaduttaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ18

Then Andhaka, the leader of the dānava folk, his eyes rolling, said to his charioteer:
‘Charioteer, take me to Śukra; he is our guru and ever removes our sorrow.’ / 13
Saying, ‘So be it,’ he drove that chariot yoked with excellent horses,
mounted by the leader of the dānava hosts and rumbling like a rain-cloud, / to where Śukra was, O twice-born, the best among planets. / 14
Thus ends the one hundred and forty-fifth chapter in the Skandapurāṇa, in the battle of the gaṇas.