[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) › 7.9.63\_127 # Skandapurana 7.9.63\_127 Skandapurāṇa 7.9.63\_127 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.9.63\_127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 (?) . 492 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.9.63\_126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.63_126) - [Next: 7.9.63\_128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.63_128) - [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.7.9.63_127) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Ambikākhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.ambikakhanda.91.12-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.63_127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.63_127) · Pramāṇa