Skandapurana 7.9.63_132

7.9.63_132

18 bhṛśamāyastha: - kha. ! 19 mṛtyurivāntakaḥ - kha. .
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anye ca bahavo daityāstaṃ20 rudraṃ paryavārayan .
te śaraiśca gadābhiśca muśalaiḥ prāśatomaraiḥ21 .24..
nyavārayanta taṃ devaṃ tarjayanta:22 punaḥ punaḥ .
sa hanyamānastairdevo bahubhirmunisattama .
apāsartata vegena samīpāt suravidviṣām .25..
ajaikapāt kālanemiṃ gadinaṃ gadayāsaham23 .
samāhvayata daityendraṃ24 madhuṃ viṣṇurivorjitam .26..
tau suyuddhau25 gadāhastau26 maṃḍalāni mahābalau .
anyonyavijaye saktau grahāviva viceratuḥ ..27..
kālanemistu saṃkruddho gadāṃ hemapariṣkṛtām .
śataghaṃṭāṭṭahāsāṃ ca mṛtyorjihvāmivādbhutām27 ..28..

[…] / and many other Daityas surrounded that Rudra. / With arrows, clubs, iron bludgeons, and barbed darts, / they held back that god, threatening him again and again. / Struck by those many [foes], O best of sages, the god / swiftly retreated from the presence of the enemies of the gods. / Ajaikapād challenged the club-bearing Kālanemi, who was irresistible with his club, / the lord of Daityas, as Viṣṇu [challenged] mighty Madhu. / Those two mighty warriors, wielding clubs in their hands, skilful in combat, / moved in circular courses, intent on defeating each other, like two planets. / Then Kālanemi, enraged, [took up] his club adorned with gold, / loudly ringing with a hundred bells, wonderful as the tongue of Death.