[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 7.15.p2 # Skandapurana 7.15.p2 Skandapurāṇa 7.15.p2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.15.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.15.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.15.p1) - [Next: 7.15.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.15.p3) - [Up: 7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.15) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.15.p2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.15.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.15.p2) · Pramāṇa