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# Skandapurana 7.16.p29

Skandapurāṇa 7.16.p29

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.16.p29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.p29)

sanatkumāra uvāca  
viṣṇu1 mardyamānaṃ tu dānavān dānavārdanam .  
jambhombuda ivārāvaṃ kṛtvā dudrāva dānavaḥ . .1 . .  
tamāpatantaṃ dṛṣṭvā tu jambhamambudanisvanam .  
na sa saṃvivije devaḥ siṃho dṛṣṭveva kuñjaram . .2 ..  
kujambhaścaiva jambhaśca yavīyāna dānavācalaḥ .  
anantamantaṃ śatrūṇāmāvavāra rarāsa ca . .3 . .  
vṛtroñjanagiriprakhyaḥ saṃvartta kanikāśadṛk2 .  
jighṛkṣurabhyagādindraṃ nadamānaḥ3 payodavat . .4..  
taṃ dhāvantaṃ nadantaṃ ca dānavaṃ śatalocanaḥ .  
kuhare girīsaṃkāśa4 mājaghāna purandaraḥ . .5. .  
bhāvayatyo (?) gadāyodhī śatāyuṃ vāyumāhave .  
yoddhu kāmobhyayāttūrṇaṃ jagarja ca jahāsa ca .. 6 . .  
tuhuṇḍahuṇḍāvaśvibhyāmayudhyetāṃ mahāsurau .  
prahlādena bhagassārdhamaṃśena ca virocanaḥ . .7. .  
aryamāṇaṃ yamañcaivā7yuddhetāṃ vilvakelvalau8 .  
vipracittimukhā ye ca baliṣvagrā9 mahāsurāḥ ..8 . .  
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32 yathodagraṃ - ka . 33 pūrṇamaṇḍalaṃ - ka. . 34... rgaṇapatidevadānavaiḥ - - ka. . 35 pradhūpitajvālitara babhau raṇam - ka. . 36 ā 200 kha.

> Sanatkumāra said: / When Viṣṇu, crusher of Dānavas, was crushing the Dānavas, / the Dānava Jambha rushed forward, roaring like a cloud. / Seeing Jambha rushing forward with a voice like a thundercloud, / the god was not perturbed, like a lion seeing an elephant. / Kujambha and Jambha, the younger mountain-like Dānavas, / checked the endless end of enemies, and roared. / Vṛtra, resembling a mountain of collyrium, looking like the fire of cosmic dissolution, / wishing to seize Indra, advanced, roaring like a rain-cloud. / That Dānava who was running and roaring, the hundred-eyed Purandara / struck in the cavernous cleft, looking like a mountain. / \[…\] a mace-fighter, wishing to fight with Vāyu of a hundred lives in the battle, / rushed forward swiftly, roared, and laughed. / Tuhuṇḍa and Huṇḍa, two great Asuras, fought with the two Aśvins; / Bhaga fought with Prahlāda, and Virocana with Aṃśa; / Vilva and Kelvala fought with Aryaman and Yama; / and those great Asuras who were foremost in Bali's army, headed by Vipracitti,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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