Skandapurana 7.9.45_96

7.9.45_96

1 balāhakānāṃ ca - gha. . 2.. ścai (ccai?) va - kha. . 3 kuthā - kha. . 4 śaraṇaṃyātrā - kha. . 5 ...rvīkṣāmṛnmathabhedataḥ (?) - kha. . 6 balā(t) - kha. . 7 bahuśo - kha. . 8 vihatān - kha. . 9 vāyuṃ bāhuyuddhena yodhayat (?) .
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sa tena suprahāreṇa hiraṇyākṣasya - - - .
---nyanna10 kiñcicca tata11 eva sa dānavam12 ..8.85.10..
parityajya yayau tūrṇamanyadeśaṃ13 mahābalaḥ .
aṃśasaṃvarayoścāpi sumahanmunisattama ..11..
yuddhaṃ samabhavad ghoraṃ draṣṭṝṇāṃ14 tuṣṭivardhanam .
aṃśosyāpatatastūrṇam̐ saṃvarasya mahābalaḥ ..12..
darśayam̐llāghavaṃ samyag dhvajaṃ ciccheda kāṃcanam .
dhanuśca paṃcadhā kṛtvā hyānninye yamakṣayam .. 13 ..
tatosya sāratheḥ kāyācchiro bhūmāvapātayat .
bhūya enaṃ catuḥṣaṣṭyā sāyakānāmavidhyata ..14..
sa māyāṃ tāmasīṃ ghorāṃ samāviśyāśu dānavaḥ .
upalaiścāpi vajraiśca gadābhiḥ parighairapi ..15..
kaṃkaṭaiḥ karavālaiśca bhindipālairayoghanaiḥ .
jaghāna sarathaṃ devamaṃśaṃ15 vyāsa raṇājire .16..
sa saṃdṛśya16 samantācca pātyamānaṃ17 mahābhayam .
aṃśo mūḍho raṇaṃ tyaktvā prayayāvanyato bhayāt ..17..

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From that powerful blow of Hiraṇyākṣa […] / […] nothing, and from that very spot, the mighty one, / having abandoned the Dānava, quickly went to another place. / Then between Aṃśa and Śaṃbara, O best of sages, / a very great and terrible fight took place, delighting the onlookers. / As Śaṃbara rushed up, the mighty Aṃśa, quickly / displaying full lightness of hand, cut down his golden standard, / and having split his bow into five pieces, sent his horses to the abode of Yama. / Then he brought the head of his charioteer down from the body to the ground; / again he pierced him with sixty-four arrows. / The Dānava, swiftly entering a terrible darkness of illusion, / with stones, with thunderbolts, with maces, and with iron bars, / with armours, with swords, with javelins, and with iron clubs, / struck the god Aṃśa along with his chariot on the battlefield, O Vyāsa. / Seeing that great danger falling upon him from all sides, / Aṃśa, bewildered, abandoned the battle and fled elsewhere out of fear.