[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.p25 # Skandapurana 7.9.p25 Skandapurāṇa 7.9.p25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.9.p25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p25) 472 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.9.p24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p24) - [Next: 7.9.p26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p26) - [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.p25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p25) · Pramāṇa