Skandapurana 7.9.45_98

7.9.45_98

10 tyanta - kha. .. 11 tapa - kha. .. 12 dānava: - kha. .. 13 madhyadaśaṃ - kha. .. 14 daṃṣṭrin (? ) - kha. .
māśu - kha. .. 16 samadṛśyan - kha. .. 17 pātayān - kha. .. 1= bali - kha. .. 19 bhago - kha. .
20ca vīryavān - kha. .
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bhagopi lajjayāviṣṭaḥ padā tenāhatastadā .
muśalena hyām̐stasya rathañcaiva sasārathim .22..
nāmaśeṣām̐stadā kṛtvā vinanāda yathāmbudaḥ .
syandanaṃ tu balastyaktvā cūrṇitaṃ sahayaṃ tadā ..23..
bhagasya kārmuka divyaṃ bhūmisthaścācchinad21 balī .
tata enaṃ pṛṣatkena lalāṭe samatāḍayat ..24..
hastayośca punarvyāsa śarairvivyādha saptabhiḥ .
gṛhṇataḥ kārmukaṃ cāsya pṛṣṭhadeśe22 balocchinat23 .25..
punaścānyat punaścānyat sa jagrāha tato bhagaḥ24..
muśalaṃ kālamūlaṃ tat sarvaghātyanalaprabham ..26..
hatosīti tamuktvaiva cikṣepa balanāśanam .
tamāpatantaṃ muśalaṃ balo dānavapuṃgavaḥ ..27..
śarairviṣṭambhayāmāsa nandī mṛtyuṃ yathātmanaḥ .
atha25 pratihtaṃ matvā muśalaṃ sosuraḥ punaḥ ..28..
dhanuṣkoṭayā bhagaṃ mūrdhni balavān samatāḍayat .
rathaśca saha sūtena gṛhītvā kūbare punaḥ .. 29..

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Bhaga too, filled with shame at being struck by his foot, / then with a club reduced his horses, chariot, and charioteer / to nothing but a name, and roared like a cloud. / But Bala, having abandoned that crushed chariot together with the horses, / standing on the ground, the powerful one cut through Bhaga’s divine bow. / Then he struck him on the forehead with a reed-arrow, / and again, O Vyāsa, he pierced his hands with seven shafts. / And as he grasped [another] bow, Bala cut it away from his back. / Then Bhaga seized yet another and another; / [then] a club, root of death, destroying everything, blazing like fire. / Saying to him, “You are slain!”, he hurled it to destroy Bala. / As that club flew, Bala, the bull among Dānavas, / stopped it with arrows, as Nandī [subdued] his own death. / Then, seeing the club thwarted, that powerful Asura again / struck Bhaga on the head with the tip of his bow; / and seizing the chariot together with the charioteer by the pole again,