Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.109

c9.109

While Viṣṇu stood there amazed Raktaja praised him and Śiva with folded hands and asked from the skull what he should do. Then Śiva ordered him thus : You kill this asura (Svedaja) created by Brahmā with his own effulgence.” And Śiva led Raktaja out of the skull by his hands and told him again :—“Look, here lies the terrible person I spoke about made unconscious by the cry of ‘Hum’ by Viṣṇu. Awake him immediately.” After having said this Śiva disappeared. Nara, in the presence of Nārāyaṇa, kicked the unconscious Svedaja with his left foot, and he came out of his unconscious state.