Skandapurana 7.15.p2

7.15.p2

sanatkumāra uvāca
śaṃkukarṇaṃ bhrāmayitvā vṛtrastyaktvā ca bhūtale .
mamarda pramathānīkaṃ vanaṃ matto yathā gajaḥ1 ..1 ..
sa nandinaṃ nandiṣeṇaṃ somanandinameva ca .
āhatya drāvayitvā ca nanarda jalado yathā ..2..
tasyātha nardamānasya viṭpatī rudrasattamaḥ .
mumoca vajrāgnisamaṃ ripukṣayakaraṃ śaram ..3..
sa viṭpativinirmuktaḥ śaro ravikaraprabhaḥ .
viveśa vṛtraṃ nirdārya siddhombudamivāmbare ..4. .
ucchritya svakaraṃ sotha karaṃ hastīva dānavaḥ .
viṭpatiṃ dudruve5 saṃkhye payodamiva mārutaḥ ..5. .
taṃ śūlena mahākāyo nandī vajreṇa dānavam .
somanandī kuṭhāreṇa nandiṣeṇastalena ca ..6 ..
bāṇānāñca sahasreṇa viṭpatirvṛtramāhave .
bibheda paramakruddhaḥ punaścānyaistrisaptabhiḥ ..7..
sordito gaṇayūtheśairdānavaḥ parvatopamaḥ .
pātyamāno rarāsoccaissadaivata iva drumaḥ ..8..

Sanatkumāra said: / Having whirled Śaṃkukarṇa round and cast him down upon the ground, / Vṛtra trampled the army of the pramathas, as an intoxicated elephant tramples a forest.
He struck Nandin, Nandiṣeṇa, and Somanandin, / put them to flight, and roared like a raincloud.
Then, as he was roaring, Viṭpati, best of Rudras, / shot an arrow like the thunderbolt-fire, bringing ruin to enemies.
Shot by Viṭpati, that arrow, brilliant as the rays of the sun, / entered Vṛtra, piercing him, as a perfected being enters a cloud in the sky.
Raising his own hand, like an elephant raising its trunk, that Danu's son / rushed at Viṭpati in the fight, as a wind rushes at a cloud.
With a trident the huge-bodied Nandī [struck] him, with a thunderbolt [struck] the dānava; / Somanandī struck with an axe, and Nandiṣeṇa with his palm.
And Viṭpati, exceedingly enraged, pierced Vṛtra in battle / with a thousand arrows, and again with twenty-one more.
Tormented by the leaders of the gaṇa-hosts, that dānava, huge as a mountain, / as he was being struck down, cried aloud like a tree inhabited by a deity.