Skanda Purana 7.9.63_155

7.9.63_155

20 padam - gha. .. 21 jātamānasya ūrjitā: - gha. .. 22 narā - kha. .. 23 stadā .. - kha. .. 24 vegān, vegavanto - kha. .
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grasantaśca yathā grāhāśchindanto makarā iva .
varṣamāṇā iva ghanāḥ siṃhā iva ca nardina:25 ..
dānavānāṃ balaṃ sarve vegenaivābhyavārayan ..32..
taddevavegaprahatābhivegaṃ26 balaṃ sayatnaṃ27 danudānavānām .
bhavatyanādhāramatiprasaktaṃ28 tṛṇaṃ yathā vahnimukhāvasaktam .33 ..
iti skandapurāṇe yuddheṣṭāśītitamodhyāyaḥ
sanatkumāra uvāca
teṣāṃ tadveganunnānāṃ1 bhagnānāṃ kliśyatāṃ puna:2 ..
trāṇārthamatidīptākṣo3 hiraṇyākṣograhītpadam4 ..1..
andhakaśca mahāmāyo bhrātaraścāsya5 tatsamāḥ .
śataṃ rathasahasrāṇāṃ sarveṣāmapalāyinām ..2..
prahlādaśca sahabhrātā hiraṇyakaśipoḥ sutaḥ .
vipracitiḥ sahabhrātā saiṃhikeyaiśca taissaha ..3..

[Variant readings]
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seizing like crocodiles, tearing like makaras, / raining down like clouds, and roaring like lions, / all resisted the army of the Dānavas with sheer momentum. // 32
Struck by the onrush of the gods, that striving army of the Danus and Dānavas / became supportless, overwhelmed, like grass caught in the mouth of fire. // 33
Thus ends the eighty-eighth chapter in the battle of the Skandapurāṇa.
Sanatkumāra said:
For the sake of protecting those who were driven back by that assault, broken, and again tormented, / Hiraṇyākṣa of exceedingly blazing eyes stepped forth. // 1
And Andhaka, possessor of great illusion, and his brothers equal to him, / a hundred thousand chariots belonging to all those who never fled, // 2
and Prahlāda with his brothers, the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, / Vipracitti with his brothers, and together with the Saiṃhikeyas— // 3