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# Skandapurana 7.9.p29

Skandapurāṇa 7.9.p29

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.9.p29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.9.p29)

yathāṃśaṃ sa cakārograsthānyānapi daivatān6 ..8.82.1 0 . .  
nirudyamān mahāmāyaścakāra virarāsa ca .  
kvacid gīṣpatisaṃkāśaḥ7 kvacid bhāskarasaṃnibhaḥ .. 11 ..  
kvacitsomāgnikalpaśca kvacittārāgrahaissamaḥ8 .  
kvacitparvatasaṃkāśaḥ kvacid gṛdhravapurdharaḥ .. 12 . .  
kvaciccākāśamāviśya adṛśyaḥ sosṛjaccharān .  
śaropacitagātraṃ tacchinnaṃ bhinnaṃ vidāritam . . 13 . .  
viṣṭabdhaṃ mūkavatsarvaṃ devānāṃ balamābabhau .

> Just as he did to Aṃśa, he did to other deities as well, / rendering them incapable of effort; that master of great illusion roared aloud. / In some places resembling Bṛhaspati (Gīṣpati), in some places like the sun, / in some places resembling the moon and fire, and in some places equal to planets and stars, / in some places like a mountain, and in some places assuming the form of a vulture, / in some places entering the sky, invisible, he loosed his arrows. / Their limbs crowded with arrows, cut, pierced, and torn open, / the entire army of the gods appeared stunned, as though dumb.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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