Skandapurana 7.16.11.1

7.16.11.1

sanatkumāra uvāca
hanyamāne bale tasmin devaiḥ sapramatheśvaraiḥ .
cukrudhurdānavā1 ghorāścaturviṃśatidarpitāḥ .. 1 . .
prahrādaścānuhrādaśca saṃhrādaḥ śinibāṣkalau .
jambho virocano vṛtro balirbāṇovaniñjayaḥ . .2. .
tathā tuhuṇḍo huṇḍaśca śambhuḥ kārtasvanaḥ kubhaḥ2 .
śambaro vipracittiśca ilvakaḥ3 pilvakastathā .. 3 . .
mayastārastārakākṣo vidyunmālī pramohanaḥ .
etemarṣavaśaṃ prāptāścaturviṃśatidānavāḥ ..4..
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10 dhanurguṇāditantukā - ka.,.. .ti - (?) . 11 hāsitāḥ - kha. . 12..? surmahādbhutam-kha . 13 tadāndhakaḥ - ka. . 14 śarāhato ta(?) . 15 202 - kha. .
1 cukraśurdānavā - kha. . 2 kuśaḥ - ka, . 3 ilvalaḥ - kha. .
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dudruvuḥ sāyudhaṃ devaṃ4 nandinaṃ samavasthitam5 .
teñjanācalasaṃkāśāḥ kāñcanācalasannibham . .5 . .
nandinaṃ tāḍayāmāsuḥ śūlaśaktyṛṣṭipaṭṭiśaiḥ .
tathā tairaribhiḥ śastraistāḍito vāritaśca vai ..6 . .
nākṣubhyata tadā nandī nārttimāpanna ca vyathām .
tato vikṛṣya bhagavānātataṃ kārmukaṃ mahat . .7..
tribhistribhirbibhedāśu sarvāndānavasattamāna .
te bāṇamārganisrāvai6 dānavāḥ śoṇitakṣarāḥ .8..
kṣaranta iva śailendrāstapanīyarasān babhuḥ .
tato roṣoddhato nandī śukreṇojjīvitaṃ punaḥ . .9..
kārttasvanaṃ śarairghorairanayadyamasādanam .
jīvitasraṃsanaṃ prāpya sa dānavamahācalaḥ7 . . 8.154.10 . .
śīrṇopalaḥ papātāśu vajrāhata ivācalaḥ .
patamāne kṣitau8 tasminnandibāṇāhate hate . .1 1 . .
balirutpāṭya śailāgraṃ cikṣepoddiśya nandinam .

Sanatkumāra said: / When that army was being slain by the gods together with the lords of the Pramathas, / the twenty-four terrible and proud dānavas became enraged: / Prahrāda, Anuhrāda, Saṃhrāda, Śini, Bāṣkala, / Jambha, Virocana, Vṛtra, Bali, Bāṇa, Aviniñjaya, / likewise Tuhuṇḍa, Huṇḍa, Śambhu, Kārtasvana, Kubha, / Śambara, Vipracitti, Ilvaka, Pilvaka, / Maya, Tāra, Tārakākṣa, Vidyunmālī, and Pramohana. / These twenty-four dānavas, overcome with fury, / rushed toward the armed divine Nandī who stood ready. / They, resembling mountains of collyrium, struck Nandī, who resembled a mountain of gold, / with tridents, spears, pikes, and paṭṭiśas. / Thus struck and hemmed in by those enemies with weapons, / Nandī was not shaken then, nor did he experience pain or suffering. / Then the lord, drawing his large drawn bow, / quickly pierced all the foremost dānavas with three arrows each. / Flowing with blood from the wounds made by arrows, those dānavas / shone like lordly mountains pouring forth streams of melted gold. / Then Nandī, puffed up with rage, with terrible arrows dispatched Kārttasvana, / who had been revived by Śukra, to the abode of Yama. / Reaching the end of his life, that great mountain of a dānava / fell down swiftly like a mountain struck by a thunderbolt, its stones shattered. / As he fell to the earth, killed, struck by Nandī's arrows, / Bali, having torn up a mountain peak, hurled it aiming at Nandī.