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Skandapurana 7.16.p29

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7.16.p29

Sanatkumāra said: / When Viṣṇu, crusher of Dānavas, was crushing the Dānavas, / the Dānava Jambha rushed forward, roaring like a cloud. / Seeing Jambha rushing forward with a voice like a thundercloud, / the god was not perturbed, like a lion seeing an elephant. / Kujambha and Jambha, the younger mountain-like Dānavas, / checked the endless end of enemies, and roared. / Vṛtra, resembling a mountain of collyrium, looking like the fire of cosmic dissolution, / wishing to seize Indra, advanced, roaring like a rain-cloud. / That Dānava who was running and roaring, the hundred-eyed Purandara / struck in the cavernous cleft, looking like a mountain. / […] a mace-fighter, wishing to fight with Vāyu of a hundred lives in the battle, / rushed forward swiftly, roared, and laughed. / Tuhuṇḍa and Huṇḍa, two great Asuras, fought with the two Aśvins; / Bhaga fought with Prahlāda, and Virocana with Aṃśa; / Vilva and Kelvala fought with Aryaman and Yama; / and those great Asuras who were foremost in Bali's army, headed by Vipracitti,

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