[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) › 7.9.45\_98 # Skandapurana 7.9.45\_98 Skandapurāṇa 7.9.45\_98 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.9.45\_98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. . 485 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.. > \[Critical apparatus and page break\] > 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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.9.45\_97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.45_97) - [Next: 7.9.45\_99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.45_99) - [Up: 7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.9.45_98) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.45_98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.45_98) · Pramāṇa