[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) › 7.16.11.1 # Skandapurana 7.16.11.1 Skandapurāṇa 7.16.11.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.16.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.. - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - 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. . - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - 796 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.16.p53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.p53) - [Next: 7.16.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.11.2) - [Up: 7.16.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.16.11.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.11.1) · Pramāṇa