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Skandapurana 7.15.p33

Skandapurāṇa 7.15.p33

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7.15.p33

pṛṣṭheṣvabhihatāḥ kecit kecit pārśveṣu dāritāḥ .
nayaneṣvapare viddhā bhramantyandhā ivāpare11 ..5 . .
mṛgāniva ca śārdūlo garuḍaḥ pannagāniva .
kṛtaghnaḥ sukṛtānīva tamāṃsīva divākaraḥ ..6 . .
tathā12 tānasurāndevo viṭpatiḥ pāvakārdanaḥ .
anāśayata tīkṣṇāgraiḥ śarairvajrānalānanaiḥ ..7 . .
virathāḥ pātitagajāḥ śarāturaturaṅgamāḥ .
dhāvante dānavāstrastā viṭpateḥ śaravejitāḥ . .8 ..

Some were struck on their backs, others were torn open in the sides; / others, pierced in the eyes, wandered about like blind men;
and as a tiger [destroys] deer, or Garuḍa serpents, / or an ungrateful man good deeds, or the maker of the day darkness,
so did the god Viṭpati, afflicter of Pāvaka, / destroy those asuras with sharp-pointed arrows whose faces were like thunderbolt and fire.
With their chariots destroyed, their elephants felled, and their horses afflicted by arrows, / the terrified dānavas fled, agitated by Viṭpati's arrows.

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