Skandapurana 7.9.63_127

7.9.63_127

52 tamevābhyetya - gha. .. 53 tu (?) sa - kha. .. 54 ... mandhakaṃ - kha. .. 55 ... bhedanaiḥ - gha. . 56 astraśca - kha. .. 57 ...rāhna - kha.,...rāhva(?) .. 58 pade(?), ...kṣopari - gha. .. 59 devatā yataḥ (?) .
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sanatkumāra uvāca .
mayaścandramasaṃ devamārdayat1 krodhamūrcchitaḥ .
śarairāśīviṣākārairnardamāno yathāmbudaḥ2 ..1..
tasyāsyatastato bāṇān3 candramāḥ prahasanniva .
ekaikaṃ saptadhā kṛtvā mayaṃ vivyādha pañcabhi: ..2..
tata enaṃ pṛṣatkena lalāṭe samavidhyata .
jahāsa ca punardevastasya lajjāṃ samādadhat ..3..
sa tasya hasataḥ śīghraṃ lalāṭe kaṃkapatriṇā .
vivyādha bhṛśamāyasto yathā vighno yatavratam4 ..4..
tatosya deva uddiśya5 dhvajaṃ ciccheda nādayan6 .
cakrarakṣām̐śca7 nistriṃśai8ranayad yamasādanam ..5..
tasya taccāpalaṃ vīkṣya9 mayo dānavasattamaḥ .
māyāṃ divyāṃ10 samāsthāya rāhuḥ samabhavattadā ..6..
sa rāhubhūto daityendro deveśaṃ11 śaśalakṣaṇam .
abhyadravad yathā rāhū rathenāmbudanādinā ..7..
sa tāṃ māyāṃ tadā jñātvā devo hyamṛtasaṃbhavaḥ12 ..
aparvavad13 viyatsthaṃ vai14 taṃ śaraistribhirārdayat15 ..8..
sopi daityo mahāmāyastāñcharānmāyayaiva tu .
vārayannabhidudrāva16 śītaraśmiṃ mahāsuraḥ ..9..
tatosya syandanaṃ divyaṃ nāgayantṛ17 mahāprabham .
gṛhītvā kūbare daityaścikṣepa ca rarāsa ca ..8.87.10..

[…] / Sanatkumāra said: / Overcome with rage, Maya attacked the god Candramas / with arrows shaped like venomous serpents, roaring like a raincloud. / As he shot his arrows, Candramas, as if smiling, / split each into seven parts and pierced Maya with five. / Then with an arrow he struck him on the forehead, / and the god laughed again, inflicting shame upon him. / As he laughed, [Maya], greatly exerting himself, quickly pierced his forehead / with a heron-feathered shaft, as an obstacle [strikes] one observing a vow. / Then aiming at his banner, the god severed it while making a loud cry, / and with swords he dispatched the wheel-guards to the realm of Yama. / Seeing that dexterity of his, Maya, the foremost of Dānavas, / resorted to divine sorcery and then became Rāhu. / Becoming Rāhu, the lord of Daityas rushed upon the lord of gods, the hare-marked [Moon], / as Rāhu does, with a chariot roaring like a cloud. / Understanding that sorcery, the god born from nectar, / assailed him standing in the sky with three arrows, as if on an unordained conjunction. / But that Daitya, a master of great illusion, warding off those arrows by magic itself, / rushed at the cool-rayed [Moon], a mighty Asura. / Then, seizing by the yoke his divine chariot, radiant and steered by serpents, / the Daitya hurled it and roared aloud.