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Skandapurana 7.9.p25

Skandapurāṇa 7.9.p25

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7.9.p25

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na sa tatrāsti daityo vā dānavo vā mahābalaḥ .
yaṃ22 śarā na viśantyugrā aṃśasya23 sumahātmanaḥ ..3 6. .
bandhujīvavanaṃ yadvad vanamābhāti24 puṣpitam .
aśokakiṃśukānāṃ vā tathā daityabalaṃ babhau . .37..
ayamaṃśoyamaṃśeti netyayaṃ cāyamityuta .
sarvamaṃśamayaṃ daityā hyapaśyanta bhayārditāḥ . .38. .
sopi nityāyatadhanuḥ pariveṣīva bhāskaraḥ .
yaṃ yataḥ paśyate daityaṃ taṃ taṃ vivyādha patribhiḥ . .3 9. .
nādadānastadā hyaṃśaḥ sandadhānastathāpi vā .
na vikarṣandhanuścaiva lakṣyate daityadānavaiḥ . .8.81.40 . .
maṇḍalīkṛtamevāsya dṛśyante kārmukaṃ mahat .
āditya iva madhyāhne dṛśyate sa tadā yudhi ..41 ..
sa divyacāpo25 laghuhastavān balī sadā mahāmaṇḍalabhūtakārmukaḥ .
dadāha śatrūn pavanerito raṇe vibhāvasuḥ śuṣkamivendhanaṃ mahad26 ..42..
iti skandapurāṇe yuddhe ekāśītitamodhyāyaḥ27

There was no mighty Daitya or Dānava there / whom the fierce shafts of the noble-souled Aṃśa did not pierce. / Just as a forest of bandhujīva trees or of aśoka and kiṃśuka trees appears ablaze in flower, / so shone the Daitya army [covered in red blood]. / 'This is Aṃśa! This is Aṃśa!' 'No, not this one—this one!' / Stricken with fear, the Daityas saw everything as consisting of Aṃśa alone. / He, his bow continuously drawn like the sun enveloped in a halo, / pierced each Daitya with winged arrows wherever he saw him. / Neither taking up [an arrow] nor setting it on the string, / nor drawing the bow was Aṃśa seen to do by the Daityas and Dānavas. / His great bow was seen only as a continuous circle; / he appeared in battle then like the midday sun. / Wielding a divine bow, swift-handed and mighty, his bow ever formed into a great circle, / he burned his enemies in battle like fire stirred by the wind [burns] a vast heap of dry fuel. / Thus ends the eighty-first chapter in the [battle narrative of the] Skandapurāṇa.

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