Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 56
GnP 2 56.1
अध्याय ५६ प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । तौ तु रौद्रपुरे रम्यां नरान्तकसभां गतौ । सहस्रस्तम्भरुचिरां मणिमुक्ताविभूषिताम् अध्याय ५७ प्रारंभ- क उवाच । तस्मिन्प्रयाते दैत्येन्द्रे प्राग्गुल्मेषु गता नराः । धावमाना नृपं प्रोचुर्भुक्तवन्तं नरान्तकः अध्याय ५८ प्रारंभ – क उवाच । अर्धमार्गं गतो यावद्धर्षेणासौ नरान्तकः । तावदेव श्रुतं काशीराजपत्न्या धृतो नृपः अध्याय ५९ प्रारंभ – मुनिरुवाच । विनायकेन बालेन कुतः स पुरुषः कृतः । येन तद्भक्षितं सैन्यमानीतः स नरांतकः (२६५८) अध्याय ६० प्रारंभ : क उवाच । ततो नरान्तको दृष्ट्वा विनायकविचेष्टितम् । मेधया तर्कयामास दृष्टमस्याद्भुतं महत्
adhyāya 56 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | tau tu raudrapure ramyāṃ narāntakasabhāṃ gatau | sahasrastambharucirāṃ maṇimuktāvibhūṣitām adhyāya 57 prāraṃbha- ka uvāca | tasminprayāte daityendre prāggulmeṣu gatā narāḥ | dhāvamānā nṛpaṃ procurbhuktavantaṃ narāntakaḥ adhyāya 58 prāraṃbha – ka uvāca | ardhamārgaṃ gato yāvaddharṣeṇāsau narāntakaḥ | tāvadeva śrutaṃ kāśīrājapatnyā dhṛto nṛpaḥ adhyāya 59 prāraṃbha – muniruvāca | vināyakena bālena kutaḥ sa puruṣaḥ kṛtaḥ | yena tadbhakṣitaṃ sainyamānītaḥ sa narāṃtakaḥ (2658) adhyāya 60 prāraṃbha : ka uvāca | tato narāntako dṛṣṭvā vināyakaviceṣṭitam | medhayā tarkayāmāsa dṛṣṭamasyādbhutaṃ mahat
Chapter 56 begins. The sage said: But the two went into the lovely assembly-hall of Narāntaka in Raudrapura, splendid with a thousand pillars, adorned with gems and pearls. Chapter 57 begins. Ka said: When that lord of the Daityas had set out, the men who had gone to the forward outposts, running, told the king that Narāntaka had devoured (them). Chapter 58 begins. Ka said: While Narāntaka was going half the way in exultation, just then the wife of the king of Kāśī heard that the king had been seized. Chapter 59 begins. The sage said: Whence was that man made by the child Vināyaka, by whom that army was devoured and that Narāntaka was brought (here)? (2658) Chapter 60 begins. Ka said: Then Narāntaka, seeing Vināyaka's doings, reflected with his intelligence: great is this marvel of his that has been seen.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.2
अनेकवीरसंबाधां नानाश्चर्यवतीं शुभाम् । शतयोजनविस्तीर्णां तावदायामसंयुताम् कामक्रोधौ द्वावसुरौ रासभं रूपमास्थितौ । हन्तुं बालं तु मार्गे तौ चूर्णितौ धरणीतले आगता भक्षितुं बालं दुष्टाशयवती शुभा । तदुरःस्थलमाक्रम्य प्राणां जग्राह विघ्नराट् खद्योतो राजते तावद्यावच्चन्द्रो न दृश्यते । चन्द्रोऽपि राजते तावद्यावत्सूर्यो न दृश्यते नानाधातुविचित्रो नु पर्वतानां व्रजो व्रजन् । चीत्कारेण नदद्दन्तैर्भिन्दन्निव गिरिव्रजम् केशरागरुकस्तूरीकर्पूरांगविलेपनः । शुचिरस्त्राणि सस्मार न प्रयुक्तानि कुत्रचित् आगतो दैत्यराजोऽसौ चतुरंगबलान्वितः । पौरा वादित्रनिर्घोषाञ्श्रुत्वा चक्रुर्महास्वनान् विनायकानुग्रहान्नो न भयं विद्यते क्वचित् । तथापि बलवान्दैत्यो बलाज्जिग्ये वसुन्धराम् विचारयत्सु तेष्येवं दैत्यास्ते बलवत्तराः । रुरुधुस्तां पुरीं सैन्यैः सर्वे ते शलभा इव मुंचति स्म शरैस्ते ते निहता दैत्य संचयाः । केचिन्मृताश्च भग्नाश्च केचिन्निश्चरणाः कृताः राजाऽयमिति बुद्ध्वा ते सर्व एव समाययुः । तच्छराणां महावृष्टिं सोढ्वा दध्रुर्बलादमुम् अत्यन्तं सा शुशोचाथ पौरा ये चावशेषिताः । आक्रन्दः सुमहानासीन्मत्स्यानां निर्जले यथा अहं च धरणी चापि कथं वैधव्यमागता। न तादृशः क्वापि जातो करुणाब्धिः शरण्यदः। देहि मे क्षुधितस्यादौ भक्ष्यं तृप्तिकरं प्रभो । इत्युक्तवन्तं पुरुषमुवाच स विनायकः दैत्यसेनाचराः सर्वे महाशब्दान्प्रचक्रिरे । केचिच्च भक्षितास्तेन चूर्णिताः पादघाततः क्षीणशक्तिः पमालासौ दैत्यराजो नरान्तकः । स कालपुरुषस्तस्य पृष्ठ एवालगत्तदा मम निद्रास्थलं यच्छ श्रमापनुत्तये विभो । सर्वेषां च सुखायास्य मुक्तिं यच्छ विनायक एतन्मे प्रकटं ब्रूहि संशयोऽत्र महान्मम । क उवाच । यन्निर्गुणं परं ब्रह्म तदेतत्सगुणं बभौ सप्तद्वीपवतीं पृथ्वीं पर्वतद्रुमसंयुताम् । सरित्सागरवापीभिस्तडागैर्मानवैः श्रिताम् आश्चर्यं बहुधा दृष्टं मया तव च विश्वक्ति । अहं युद्धाय संप्राप्तो ध्वजिनी पुनरागता विनायकः करतलं कृपया निदधार ह । दिव्यज्ञानोऽभवद्राजा काशीराजस्तु तत्क्षणात् विनायकस्य मायाभिर्मोहिता मोचिताश्च ह । ततस्तत्र ययौ राजा भार्यामम्बां जगाद च काशीराजे धृते तेन निर्मितः कालपूरुषः । अखिला वाहिनी तेन भक्षिता मम सर्वशः विनायक उवाच । किमर्थं वल्गसे मूढ यदा ते पृतनाऽखिला । भक्षिता क्व गता शक्तिर्यदर्थं कथ्यते मुहुः नरान्तकेति मे नाम त्वादृशानां हि भक्षणात् । इदानीं शरणं याहि यदि जीवितुमिच्छसि तथा हतो दैत्यराजो निपपात महीतले । मूर्छनां महतीं प्राप्तो मर्मभिन्नो यथाश्मना पद्मपाशाङकुशाघातैः परशोर्दृढकर्मणा । तस्यां निवारितायां तु दैत्योऽमुच्चत्तथा पराम् पपात दैत्यभुजयोरकस्मात्सायकद्वयम् । गर्जत्प्रकाशयद्व्योम संहरज्जीवसंचयान्
anekavīrasaṃbādhāṃ nānāścaryavatīṃ śubhām | śatayojanavistīrṇāṃ tāvadāyāmasaṃyutām kāmakrodhau dvāvasurau rāsabhaṃ rūpamāsthitau | hantuṃ bālaṃ tu mārge tau cūrṇitau dharaṇītale āgatā bhakṣituṃ bālaṃ duṣṭāśayavatī śubhā | taduraḥsthalamākramya prāṇāṃ jagrāha vighnarāṭ khadyoto rājate tāvadyāvaccandro na dṛśyate | candro'pi rājate tāvadyāvatsūryo na dṛśyate nānādhātuvicitro nu parvatānāṃ vrajo vrajan | cītkāreṇa nadaddantairbhindanniva girivrajam keśarāgarukastūrīkarpūrāṃgavilepanaḥ | śucirastrāṇi sasmāra na prayuktāni kutracit āgato daityarājo'sau caturaṃgabalānvitaḥ | paurā vāditranirghoṣāñśrutvā cakrurmahāsvanān vināyakānugrahānno na bhayaṃ vidyate kvacit | tathāpi balavāndaityo balājjigye vasundharām vicārayatsu teṣyevaṃ daityāste balavattarāḥ | rurudhustāṃ purīṃ sainyaiḥ sarve te śalabhā iva muṃcati sma śaraiste te nihatā daitya saṃcayāḥ | kecinmṛtāśca bhagnāśca kecinniścaraṇāḥ kṛtāḥ rājā'yamiti buddhvā te sarva eva samāyayuḥ | taccharāṇāṃ mahāvṛṣṭiṃ soḍhvā dadhrurbalādamum atyantaṃ sā śuśocātha paurā ye cāvaśeṣitāḥ | ākrandaḥ sumahānāsīnmatsyānāṃ nirjale yathā ahaṃ ca dharaṇī cāpi kathaṃ vaidhavyamāgatā| na tādṛśaḥ kvāpi jāto karuṇābdhiḥ śaraṇyadaḥ| dehi me kṣudhitasyādau bhakṣyaṃ tṛptikaraṃ prabho | ityuktavantaṃ puruṣamuvāca sa vināyakaḥ daityasenācarāḥ sarve mahāśabdānpracakrire | kecicca bhakṣitāstena cūrṇitāḥ pādaghātataḥ kṣīṇaśaktiḥ pamālāsau daityarājo narāntakaḥ | sa kālapuruṣastasya pṛṣṭha evālagattadā mama nidrāsthalaṃ yaccha śramāpanuttaye vibho | sarveṣāṃ ca sukhāyāsya muktiṃ yaccha vināyaka etanme prakaṭaṃ brūhi saṃśayo'tra mahānmama | ka uvāca | yannirguṇaṃ paraṃ brahma tadetatsaguṇaṃ babhau saptadvīpavatīṃ pṛthvīṃ parvatadrumasaṃyutām | saritsāgaravāpībhistaḍāgairmānavaiḥ śritām āścaryaṃ bahudhā dṛṣṭaṃ mayā tava ca viśvakti | ahaṃ yuddhāya saṃprāpto dhvajinī punarāgatā vināyakaḥ karatalaṃ kṛpayā nidadhāra ha | divyajñāno'bhavadrājā kāśīrājastu tatkṣaṇāt vināyakasya māyābhirmohitā mocitāśca ha | tatastatra yayau rājā bhāryāmambāṃ jagāda ca kāśīrāje dhṛte tena nirmitaḥ kālapūruṣaḥ | akhilā vāhinī tena bhakṣitā mama sarvaśaḥ vināyaka uvāca | kimarthaṃ valgase mūḍha yadā te pṛtanā'khilā | bhakṣitā kva gatā śaktiryadarthaṃ kathyate muhuḥ narāntaketi me nāma tvādṛśānāṃ hi bhakṣaṇāt | idānīṃ śaraṇaṃ yāhi yadi jīvitumicchasi tathā hato daityarājo nipapāta mahītale | mūrchanāṃ mahatīṃ prāpto marmabhinno yathāśmanā padmapāśāṅakuśāghātaiḥ paraśordṛḍhakarmaṇā | tasyāṃ nivāritāyāṃ tu daityo'muccattathā parām papāta daityabhujayorakasmātsāyakadvayam | garjatprakāśayadvyoma saṃharajjīvasaṃcayān
(the hall) thronged with many heroes, full of various wonders, auspicious, a hundred yojanas broad and of the same length. The two asuras Kāma and Krodha, having taken on the form of a donkey, (came) to kill the boy on the road; the two were ground to dust on the surface of the earth. She came, fair but of evil intent, to devour the boy; the king of obstacles, treading on her breast, took her life-breath. The firefly shines only so long as the moon is not seen; and the moon too shines only so long as the sun is not seen. Like a moving troop of mountains variegated with many minerals, roaring with a shrill cry, as if splitting the mass of mountains with his tusks; his limbs anointed with saffron, aloe, musk and camphor, pure—he called his weapons to mind, but they were not used anywhere. That Daitya king came, accompanied by his fourfold army; the townsfolk, hearing the blare of the instruments, raised great cries. "Through Vināyaka's grace there is no fear for us anywhere; yet the mighty Daitya has conquered the earth by force." While they were deliberating thus, those still mightier Daityas blockaded that city with their armies, all of them like locusts. They kept loosing arrows; those masses of Daityas were struck down: some died, some were broken, and some were made unable to walk. Recognizing "this is the king," they all came together; enduring the great rain of his arrows, they seized him by force. She grieved exceedingly, and so did the townspeople who were left; there was a very great wailing, as of fish out of water. "How have both I and the earth come to widowhood? Nowhere has such an ocean of compassion, a giver of refuge, been born." "Give me, who am hungry, first food that will satisfy, O lord!"—to the man who spoke thus that Vināyaka replied. All the Daitya soldiers set up great shouts; and some were devoured by him, some crushed by the blow of his foot. That Daitya king Narāntaka, his power drained, withered; that Man of Time then clung to his very back. "Grant me a place to sleep, to remove my weariness, O lord; and for the happiness of all, grant him release, O Vināyaka. Tell me this plainly; my doubt in this matter is great." Ka said: That supreme Brahman which is without attributes—that very thing shone forth here endowed with attributes. (He saw) the earth with its seven continents, with its mountains and trees, resorted to by rivers, oceans, wells, tanks and men. "Many a wonder has been seen by me, and your ...(?). I came for battle; the army has come back again." Vināyaka out of compassion laid his palm (upon him), and the king of Kāśī became at that very moment possessed of divine knowledge. By Vināyaka's illusions they were deluded, and released. Then the king went there and spoke to his wife Ambā: "When the king of Kāśī had been seized, a Man of Time was created by him; my whole army was entirely devoured by him." Vināyaka said: Why do you leap about, fool, when your whole army has been devoured? Where has that power gone, for the sake of which it is said again and again, "Narāntaka is my name, because I devour such as you"? Now go for refuge, if you wish to live. So struck, the Daitya king fell to the ground, sunk in a deep swoon, his vital parts pierced as if by a stone, by the blows of lotus, noose and goad, by the firm work of the axe. When that (weapon) was warded off, the Daitya released another. Suddenly two arrows fell upon the Daitya's arms, roaring, lighting up the sky, destroying the multitudes of living beings.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.3
नानामणिमये रम्ये आसने स नरान्तकः । उपविष्टस्तत्समये तस्यामात्यौ वरासने कोलाहलो महानासील्लोकानां नगरे भृशम् । पलायिता दश दिशो लोकाः प्राणपरीप्सया अम्बा सा पतिता भूमौ धृते भर्तरि वैरिभिः । मूर्छिता च विवर्णाऽभूद्रम्भा वातहता यथा विनायकस्वरुपेण ब्रह्मविष्णुशिवात्मकम् । भूभारहरणार्थाय दुष्टानां निधनाय च अमात्यपुत्रसहितो राजाऽसावुदरं गतः । अव्यंगी बहिरानीतोऽदर्शि विश्वं नृपस्य ह
nānāmaṇimaye ramye āsane sa narāntakaḥ | upaviṣṭastatsamaye tasyāmātyau varāsane kolāhalo mahānāsīllokānāṃ nagare bhṛśam | palāyitā daśa diśo lokāḥ prāṇaparīpsayā ambā sā patitā bhūmau dhṛte bhartari vairibhiḥ | mūrchitā ca vivarṇā'bhūdrambhā vātahatā yathā vināyakasvarupeṇa brahmaviṣṇuśivātmakam | bhūbhāraharaṇārthāya duṣṭānāṃ nidhanāya ca amātyaputrasahito rājā'sāvudaraṃ gataḥ | avyaṃgī bahirānīto'darśi viśvaṃ nṛpasya ha
At that time Narāntaka was seated on a delightful throne made of various gems, and his two ministers on excellent seats. There was a great uproar of the people in the city; the people fled to the ten directions, wishing to save their lives. That Ambā fell to the ground, her husband having been seized by the enemies, and swooned and grew pale, like a plantain struck by the wind. In the form of Vināyaka, having the nature of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, for the removal of the earth's burden and for the destruction of the wicked... That king together with the minister's son went into (his) belly; brought out unmaimed, the universe had been shown to the king.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.4
उभौ गगनसंलेहिमूर्धानौ बलिनां वरौ। नत्वा तौ वदतः शूरश्वपलश्च गुणान्बहून् राजाऽथ भोजनं त्यक्त्वा प्रोत्तस्थौ स्पर्शवानिव । कृत्वा युद्धक्षमं वेषं लोकानाज्ञापयत्पुरा सखीभिः सहिताऽरोदीद्रुदती प्राब्रवीत्तदा । अम्बोवाच । सिंहखेलो गजानीकहन्ता यो रिपुमर्दनः पालनाय स्वधर्मस्य बिभ्रतेऽनन्तरूपताम् । स एव सृजते विश्वं पाति हन्ति स्वतेजसा अस्माद्भुक्तिश्च मुक्तिश्च भविता मे न संशयः । तस्मादेनं हनिष्यामि मामयं वा हनिष्यति
ubhau gaganasaṃlehimūrdhānau balināṃ varau| natvā tau vadataḥ śūraśvapalaśca guṇānbahūn rājā'tha bhojanaṃ tyaktvā prottasthau sparśavāniva | kṛtvā yuddhakṣamaṃ veṣaṃ lokānājñāpayatpurā sakhībhiḥ sahitā'rodīdrudatī prābravīttadā | ambovāca | siṃhakhelo gajānīkahantā yo ripumardanaḥ pālanāya svadharmasya bibhrate'nantarūpatām | sa eva sṛjate viśvaṃ pāti hanti svatejasā asmādbhuktiśca muktiśca bhavitā me na saṃśayaḥ | tasmādenaṃ haniṣyāmi māmayaṃ vā haniṣyati
Both of them, their heads licking the sky, foremost among the strong—bowing, the two, Śūra and Śvapala, spoke many good qualities (in praise). Then the king, leaving his meal, sprang up as though touched; having put on garb fit for battle, he gave orders to the people beforehand. Together with her friends she wept, and weeping she then spoke. Ambā said: He who sports like a lion, slayer of elephant-armies, crusher of foes; for the protection of his own dharma he assumes endless forms; he alone creates the universe, protects it and destroys it by his own splendour. From him will come to me both enjoyment and liberation—of that there is no doubt. Therefore I shall kill him, or he will kill me.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.5
वक्तव्यं दूतवर्येण यत्स्यात्साध्वितरच्च यत् । अन्यथा दूतदोषः स्यात्स्वामिकोपश्च दारुणः सज्जीभवन्तु युद्धाय भेरीशब्दमकारयत् । खड्गचर्मधरो राजा निषंगी चापवान्बली सृगालतुल्यदैत्येन स कथं विधृतो बलात् । क्व गतं मत्तमातंगसहस्रबलशालिनः अपेक्षते स लोकानां निमित्तं नियतिं पराम् । न चात्र संशयः कार्योऽनेकमायामये विभौ इत्येवं निश्चयं कृत्वा प्रोवाच स विनायकम् । दैत्य उवाच। ऐन्द्रजालिकविद्येयं दर्शिता बहुधा त्वया
vaktavyaṃ dūtavaryeṇa yatsyātsādhvitaracca yat | anyathā dūtadoṣaḥ syātsvāmikopaśca dāruṇaḥ sajjībhavantu yuddhāya bherīśabdamakārayat | khaḍgacarmadharo rājā niṣaṃgī cāpavānbalī sṛgālatulyadaityena sa kathaṃ vidhṛto balāt | kva gataṃ mattamātaṃgasahasrabalaśālinaḥ apekṣate sa lokānāṃ nimittaṃ niyatiṃ parām | na cātra saṃśayaḥ kāryo'nekamāyāmaye vibhau ityevaṃ niścayaṃ kṛtvā provāca sa vināyakam | daitya uvāca| aindrajālikavidyeyaṃ darśitā bahudhā tvayā
What is to be said by a good envoy is what is proper, and also what is otherwise (fitting); otherwise there would be the envoy's fault and the master's terrible anger. "Let them be ready for battle!"—he had the war-drum sounded. The king, bearing sword and shield, with quiver and bow, mighty—how was he forcibly seized by a Daitya no better than a jackal? Where has gone (the might) of him who had the strength of a thousand maddened elephants? He waits upon the cause of the worlds, the supreme ordinance; and no doubt should be entertained about the Lord who is made of manifold illusion. Having made this resolve, he spoke to Vināyaka. The Daitya said: This is a conjuror's art, displayed by you in many ways.
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GnP 2 56.6
श्रुत्वा तत्स्वामिना कार्यं विचार्य स्वहितं शुभम् । आवां विनायके विघ्नान्कर्तुं यातः पुरीं तु ताम् तनुत्राणी च कंकाली पुपूजे तं विनायकम् । जयपूर्वे च तं स्मृत्वा नत्वा चाश्वं समारुहत् बलं भर्तुर्मदीयस्य दैत्यकोटिहरस्य ह । कथं रुष्टो महेशो मे कदा द्रक्ष्ये निजं पतिम् तदिच्छया सर्वमिदं जगद्धि परिवर्तते । इदानीं तस्य मायां ते कथयिष्यामि विस्तरात् नाहं बिभेमि तस्यास्तु मायावी च नरान्तकः । यस्य निश्वसितेनापि निपतन्ति महाद्रयः
śrutvā tatsvāminā kāryaṃ vicārya svahitaṃ śubham | āvāṃ vināyake vighnānkartuṃ yātaḥ purīṃ tu tām tanutrāṇī ca kaṃkālī pupūje taṃ vināyakam | jayapūrve ca taṃ smṛtvā natvā cāśvaṃ samāruhat balaṃ bharturmadīyasya daityakoṭiharasya ha | kathaṃ ruṣṭo maheśo me kadā drakṣye nijaṃ patim tadicchayā sarvamidaṃ jagaddhi parivartate | idānīṃ tasya māyāṃ te kathayiṣyāmi vistarāt nāhaṃ bibhemi tasyāstu māyāvī ca narāntakaḥ | yasya niśvasitenāpi nipatanti mahādrayaḥ
Having heard that, and having considered the business (set) by his master, his own auspicious good: "We two went to that city to make obstacles for Vināyaka." And Kaṃkālī, clad in armour, worshipped that Vināyaka; and calling him to mind with the word "victory" first, and bowing, he mounted his horse. "The strength of my husband, the destroyer of crores of Daityas—how has Maheśa grown angry with me? When shall I see my own lord? Indeed by his will this whole world revolves. Now I shall tell you his māyā at length. I do not fear her; and Narāntaka is a master of illusion—he by whose very breath great mountains fall down."
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GnP 2 56.7
अतिगुप्ततरौ तत्र स्थितौ बालप्रतीक्षकौः । विघण्टो दन्तुरश्चाथ प्रथमं बालरूपिणौ तृतीयमानकारावं श्रुत्वा सेनाचरा ययुः । सन्नद्धास्त्वरमाणाश्च पत्त्यश्वस्यन्दनैर्गजैः कं देवं शरणं यामि यस्तं शीघ्रं विमोचयेत् । कश्यपस्यास्य बालस्य वराद्युद्धं कृतं वरम् अमात्यपुत्रसहितो नरांतकधृतो नृपः । यावन्न पत्तनं प्राप तावत्कालं पुमानसौ भ्रूक्षेपमात्रेण च मे ब्रह्माण्डं कम्पते भृशम् । यस्य हस्ततलाघाताद्भूगोलोऽपि द्विधा भवेत्
atiguptatarau tatra sthitau bālapratīkṣakauḥ | vighaṇṭo danturaścātha prathamaṃ bālarūpiṇau tṛtīyamānakārāvaṃ śrutvā senācarā yayuḥ | sannaddhāstvaramāṇāśca pattyaśvasyandanairgajaiḥ kaṃ devaṃ śaraṇaṃ yāmi yastaṃ śīghraṃ vimocayet | kaśyapasyāsya bālasya varādyuddhaṃ kṛtaṃ varam amātyaputrasahito narāṃtakadhṛto nṛpaḥ | yāvanna pattanaṃ prāpa tāvatkālaṃ pumānasau bhrūkṣepamātreṇa ca me brahmāṇḍaṃ kampate bhṛśam | yasya hastatalāghātādbhūgolo'pi dvidhā bhavet
The two stood there most thoroughly concealed, watching for the boy: Vighaṇṭa and Dantura, at first in the form of children. Hearing the third drum-beat, the soldiers went out, armed and hurrying, with foot-soldiers, horses, chariots and elephants. "To which god shall I go for refuge, who might quickly release him? By a boon of this child of Kaśyapa, the battle was well fought." The king, together with the minister's son, was held by Narāntaka; until he reached the city, for so long that Man (remained). "By the mere knitting of whose brow my universe trembles violently; by the blow of whose palm even the globe of the earth would split in two."
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GnP 2 56.8
ताभ्यामालिंगतस्तौ स भस्म चक्रे विनायकः । पतंगश्च विधूलश्च वायुरूपधरौ ततः अतिप्रहृष्टास्ते योधास्त्रैलोक्यग्राससाहसाः । नगर्याः पूर्वभागे स वेदिकायां स्थितो नृपः तद्धि सर्वं वृथा जातं राज्ञि मूढत्वमागतम् । यो बालवचनाच्छ्रेष्ठैर्विरोधं कृतवान्वृथा भक्षयामास तां सेनां दैत्येन परिपालिताम् । विनायकेन पुरुषो मुखेऽसौ निहितस्तदा तेन त्वं बालरूपः सन्कथं युद्धं करिष्यसि । यो व्याघ्रसंमुखं गच्छेत्स कथं सुखमेष्यति
tābhyāmāliṃgatastau sa bhasma cakre vināyakaḥ | pataṃgaśca vidhūlaśca vāyurūpadharau tataḥ atiprahṛṣṭāste yodhāstrailokyagrāsasāhasāḥ | nagaryāḥ pūrvabhāge sa vedikāyāṃ sthito nṛpaḥ taddhi sarvaṃ vṛthā jātaṃ rājñi mūḍhatvamāgatam | yo bālavacanācchreṣṭhairvirodhaṃ kṛtavānvṛthā bhakṣayāmāsa tāṃ senāṃ daityena paripālitām | vināyakena puruṣo mukhe'sau nihitastadā tena tvaṃ bālarūpaḥ sankathaṃ yuddhaṃ kariṣyasi | yo vyāghrasaṃmukhaṃ gacchetsa kathaṃ sukhameṣyati
Vināyaka reduced to ashes those two by whom he was embraced. Then Pataṃga and Vidhūla, taking the form of wind... Those warriors were exceedingly delighted, bold enough to swallow the three worlds. In the eastern part of the city the king stood upon a platform. Indeed all that came to nothing; folly had come upon the king, who on a child's word had needlessly made enmity with the best. He devoured that army which was guarded by the Daitya; then that man was placed in his mouth by Vināyaka. "Therefore, how will you, being in a child's form, do battle? He who goes to face a tiger—how will he come to happiness?"
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GnP 2 56.9
यातौ बालकमुत्क्षिप्तुं शिर आक्रम्य नाशितौ । पाषाणरूपी प्रबलः शतधा खण्डितोऽसुरः अमात्यान्सर्ववीरांश्च ददौ वस्त्रधनानि सः । उवाच समयोऽयं वो दर्शयन्तु पराक्रमम् को जयेत्तं महादैत्यं भर्तृग्राहं नरान्तकम् । विना सर्वैः कथं कल्पकालः प्राप्तो हताशया राजामात्यकुमारौ च सोऽपि ते सर्व एव तु । जठरे तस्य देवस्य ददृशुः सकलं जगत् क उवाच । इति ब्राह्मीं समाकर्ण्य नरान्तकसमीरिताम् । अब्रवीत्परमात्माऽसौ बालरूपी विनायकः
yātau bālakamutkṣiptuṃ śira ākramya nāśitau | pāṣāṇarūpī prabalaḥ śatadhā khaṇḍito'suraḥ amātyānsarvavīrāṃśca dadau vastradhanāni saḥ | uvāca samayo'yaṃ vo darśayantu parākramam ko jayettaṃ mahādaityaṃ bhartṛgrāhaṃ narāntakam | vinā sarvaiḥ kathaṃ kalpakālaḥ prāpto hatāśayā rājāmātyakumārau ca so'pi te sarva eva tu | jaṭhare tasya devasya dadṛśuḥ sakalaṃ jagat ka uvāca | iti brāhmīṃ samākarṇya narāntakasamīritām | abravītparamātmā'sau bālarūpī vināyakaḥ
The two went to snatch up the boy; treading on their heads, they were destroyed. The mighty asura in the form of stone was cut into a hundred pieces. He gave garments and wealth to the ministers and to all the heroes, and said: This is your moment; let them show their prowess. Who could conquer that great Daitya Narāntaka, the seizer of our lord? Without all (of you), how—the time of dissolution has come, O you whose hopes are ruined. The king and the minister's prince, and he too, indeed all of them, saw the whole world in the belly of that god. Ka said: Hearing this brahmic (speech) uttered by Narāntaka, that Supreme Self, Vināyaka in the form of a child, spoke.
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GnP 2 56.11
ततः कुण्डियास्तु वरः कौञ्जरं रुपमास्थितः । मार्गमावृत्य संतस्थौ तत्कुम्भस्य विदारणात् जयस्य नियमो नास्ति दैवाधीनाश्च पूरुषाः । न सेना लक्षभागेन विद्यतेऽतोऽब्रवीम्यहम् मुनिरुवाच । एवं तच्छोकमाकर्ण्य कश्यपस्यात्मजो बली। शब्देन महता गर्जन्ब्रह्मांडस्फोटकारिणा देवगन्धर्वमुनिभिः सिद्धयक्षनिशाचरैः । पन्नगैरप्सरोभिश्च शोभितं स्वर्गमंडलम् शूराः शौर्यं दर्शयन्ति न गां परबलारुजाम् । वृश्चिकेनाल्पकायेन मृगेन्द्रो हन्यते क्षणात्
tataḥ kuṇḍiyāstu varaḥ kauñjaraṃ rupamāsthitaḥ | mārgamāvṛtya saṃtasthau tatkumbhasya vidāraṇāt jayasya niyamo nāsti daivādhīnāśca pūruṣāḥ | na senā lakṣabhāgena vidyate'to'bravīmyaham muniruvāca | evaṃ tacchokamākarṇya kaśyapasyātmajo balī| śabdena mahatā garjanbrahmāṃḍasphoṭakāriṇā devagandharvamunibhiḥ siddhayakṣaniśācaraiḥ | pannagairapsarobhiśca śobhitaṃ svargamaṃḍalam śūrāḥ śauryaṃ darśayanti na gāṃ parabalārujām | vṛścikenālpakāyena mṛgendro hanyate kṣaṇāt
Then the chief of Kuṇḍiyā's (people), taking on an elephant's form, blocked the road and stood there—by the splitting of his frontal boss... "There is no fixed rule about victory, and men are subject to fate; the army does not exist even to a hundred-thousandth part—therefore I said this." The sage said: Thus, hearing that grief, the mighty son of Kaśyapa, roaring with a great sound that would burst the cosmic egg... The circle of heaven was made resplendent by gods, gandharvas and sages, by siddhas, yakṣas and night-walkers, by serpents and apsarases. Heroes display their valour, not (?) the earth, crushing the enemy's force; by a scorpion of small body a lion is killed in an instant.
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GnP 2 56.12
निहतः क्षणमात्रेण कुमारेण बलेन सः । धर्मदत्तगृहं पश्चात्जृम्भिणी हन्तुमागता क्व सागरः क्व कुम्भोदं क्व खद्योतः क्व वा रविः । तेनैव रक्षिताः साम्ना स्थिता राज्यश्रिया वयम् प्रतिशब्देन गगनं जगर्ज च दिशोऽपि च । चकम्पे धरणी सर्वा सपर्वतवनाकरा पातालानि च सप्तानि भ्रमन्तो ददृशुस्तदा । एवं ते जठरे तस्य कोष्ठे कोष्ठे पृथक्पृथक् अल्पेन हि प्रदीपेन नश्यते प्रबलं तमः । यस्य संनिहितो मृत्युः सन्निपातात्स लीयते
nihataḥ kṣaṇamātreṇa kumāreṇa balena saḥ | dharmadattagṛhaṃ paścātjṛmbhiṇī hantumāgatā kva sāgaraḥ kva kumbhodaṃ kva khadyotaḥ kva vā raviḥ | tenaiva rakṣitāḥ sāmnā sthitā rājyaśriyā vayam pratiśabdena gaganaṃ jagarja ca diśo'pi ca | cakampe dharaṇī sarvā saparvatavanākarā pātālāni ca saptāni bhramanto dadṛśustadā | evaṃ te jaṭhare tasya koṣṭhe koṣṭhe pṛthakpṛthak alpena hi pradīpena naśyate prabalaṃ tamaḥ | yasya saṃnihito mṛtyuḥ sannipātātsa līyate
He was slain in a mere moment by the mighty youth. Afterwards Jṛmbhiṇī came to destroy the house of Dharmadatta. Where the ocean, where a pot of water? Where the firefly, where the sun? Protected by him alone through conciliation, we abode in royal splendour. With the echo the sky roared, and the directions too; the whole earth quaked with its mountains, forests and mines. And wandering they then saw the seven nether worlds; thus in his belly they (saw them), in chamber after chamber separately. By a small lamp powerful darkness is destroyed; he whose death is at hand dissolves at the encounter.
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GnP 2 56.13
नारिकेलेन शिरसि हता मृत्युमवाप सा । ज्वालासुरो व्याघ्रतुण्डस्तृतीयस्तु विदारणः अपराधाः सुबहवो जाता नो मस्तके ततः । कियन्तो निहता दैत्या विनायकबलेन च पक्षिणः पतितास्तेन मृता भ्रान्ता जनास्तदा । ततः सिद्धिं समालोक्य क्रोधव्याकुललोचनः ददृशुर्भ्रान्तमनसो ब्रह्मांडनिचयान्बहून् । खिन्नास्ते शरणं जग्मुर्देवदेवं विनायकम् अल्पेन मृणिना मत्तमातंगी हि नियम्यते । क उवाच । इति श्रुत्वा तु वाक्यानि देवप्रोक्तानि दैत्यराट्
nārikelena śirasi hatā mṛtyumavāpa sā | jvālāsuro vyāghratuṇḍastṛtīyastu vidāraṇaḥ aparādhāḥ subahavo jātā no mastake tataḥ | kiyanto nihatā daityā vināyakabalena ca pakṣiṇaḥ patitāstena mṛtā bhrāntā janāstadā | tataḥ siddhiṃ samālokya krodhavyākulalocanaḥ dadṛśurbhrāntamanaso brahmāṃḍanicayānbahūn | khinnāste śaraṇaṃ jagmurdevadevaṃ vināyakam alpena mṛṇinā mattamātaṃgī hi niyamyate | ka uvāca | iti śrutvā tu vākyāni devaproktāni daityarāṭ
Struck on the head with a coconut, she met her death. Jvālāsura, Vyāghratuṇḍa, and the third, Vidāraṇa—very many offences have thus fallen on our head. How many Daityas were slain by Vināyaka's strength! Birds fell down through him; people died and were bewildered. Then, seeing that accomplishment, his eyes troubled with rage... With bewildered minds they saw many multitudes of cosmic eggs; dejected, they went for refuge to the god of gods, Vināyaka. Indeed with a small goad a maddened she-elephant is restrained. Ka said: Having heard these words spoken by the god, the Daitya king...
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GnP 2 56.14
आगता नाशितुं बालमाद्यो जज्वालतां पुरीम् । अन्त्यः साहाय्यमकरोद्वायुरूपतयाऽस्य ह त्यक्त्वा साम प्रयातोऽसौ विचारः क्रियतां हितः । मुनिरुवाच। तत्राब्रवीन्महामात्यो राजानं भयविह्वलम् क्व गताऽसि महायुद्धप्रसंगं प्राह तामिति । सा तदाशयमालक्ष्य चक्रे नानाविधां चमूम् मनसा प्रार्थयामासुस्तदा देवं विनायकम् । भ्रान्तानां खिन्नचित्तानां कृपां कुरु कृपानिधे चकम्पे परया भीत्या जगर्ज घनवद्दृढम्
āgatā nāśituṃ bālamādyo jajvālatāṃ purīm | antyaḥ sāhāyyamakarodvāyurūpatayā'sya ha tyaktvā sāma prayāto'sau vicāraḥ kriyatāṃ hitaḥ | muniruvāca| tatrābravīnmahāmātyo rājānaṃ bhayavihvalam kva gatā'si mahāyuddhaprasaṃgaṃ prāha tāmiti | sā tadāśayamālakṣya cakre nānāvidhāṃ camūm manasā prārthayāmāsustadā devaṃ vināyakam | bhrāntānāṃ khinnacittānāṃ kṛpāṃ kuru kṛpānidhe cakampe parayā bhītyā jagarja ghanavaddṛḍham
She came to destroy the boy; the first set the city ablaze; the last gave him help by taking the form of wind. He has set out having abandoned conciliation; let a plan for our good be made. The sage said: There the chief minister spoke to the king, who was overwhelmed with fear. "Where have you gone?"—he told her thus about the occasion of the great battle. She, discerning his intent, made an army of many kinds. Then they prayed in their minds to the god Vināyaka: "Show mercy, O treasury of mercy, to us who are bewildered and dejected in mind." He trembled with extreme fear and roared loudly like a thundercloud.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.15
विदार्यास्यं व्याघ्रतुण्डोऽभक्षयच्चाखिलान्जनान् । त्रयोऽपि निहतास्तेन बालेनानन्तमायया चतुर्भिर्बुद्धिमद्भिस्त्वं याहि दैत्यं नरान्तकम् । शरणं स्वस्वकार्यार्थे नीचानुशरणं शुभम् विकरालमुखा वीराः प्रादुरासन्सहस्रशः । हलदन्ताः सर्पजिह्वा नराः पर्वतमस्तकाः ततस्तान्बालरूपेण मार्गमादर्शयद्विभुः । ततो रोमांचमार्गेण बहिर्याता यथा पुरा भीषयन्रोदयन्रावैः कम्पयन्भूमिमण्डलम् । अधावत्परमावेशो हन्तुकामो विनायकम्
vidāryāsyaṃ vyāghratuṇḍo'bhakṣayaccākhilānjanān | trayo'pi nihatāstena bālenānantamāyayā caturbhirbuddhimadbhistvaṃ yāhi daityaṃ narāntakam | śaraṇaṃ svasvakāryārthe nīcānuśaraṇaṃ śubham vikarālamukhā vīrāḥ prādurāsansahasraśaḥ | haladantāḥ sarpajihvā narāḥ parvatamastakāḥ tatastānbālarūpeṇa mārgamādarśayadvibhuḥ | tato romāṃcamārgeṇa bahiryātā yathā purā bhīṣayanrodayanrāvaiḥ kampayanbhūmimaṇḍalam | adhāvatparamāveśo hantukāmo vināyakam
Vyāghratuṇḍa, tearing open his mouth, devoured all the people; yet all three were slain by that boy of endless illusion. "With four wise (counsellors) you go to the Daitya Narāntaka for refuge; for one's own purposes taking refuge with the low is good." Heroes with hideous faces appeared by the thousands, with plough-like teeth, serpents' tongues, men with mountain-heads. Then the Lord, in the form of a boy, showed them the way; then they went out by way of the pores, as before. Terrifying, making (them) weep with his roars, making the circle of the earth tremble, in utter frenzy he ran, wishing to kill Vināyaka.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.16
मेघनामा महादैत्यो गाणकं रूपमास्थितः । निहतो मुद्रिकाघातात्तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् बृहस्पतिमतं राजन्ब्रवीमि ते शृणुष्व तत् । श्रुत्वा तत्कुरु राजेंद्र ततः क्षेमं भविष्यति दारितास्यास्तु भूगोलमकस्माद्ग्रसयिष्णवः । आस्यानलं विमुंचंतः शतनेत्रा महाबलाः ददर्श काशिराजः स्वं नगरं भद्रमेव च । कश्यपस्यात्मजं बालं क्रीडन्तं तं विनायकम् यथा पतंगो दीपार्चिं हन्तुं याति त्वरान्वितः । त्रिवक्रां भ्रुकुटीं बद्ध्वा वमन्नास्येन पावकम्
meghanāmā mahādaityo gāṇakaṃ rūpamāsthitaḥ | nihato mudrikāghātāttadadbhutamivābhavat bṛhaspatimataṃ rājanbravīmi te śṛṇuṣva tat | śrutvā tatkuru rājeṃdra tataḥ kṣemaṃ bhaviṣyati dāritāsyāstu bhūgolamakasmādgrasayiṣṇavaḥ | āsyānalaṃ vimuṃcaṃtaḥ śatanetrā mahābalāḥ dadarśa kāśirājaḥ svaṃ nagaraṃ bhadrameva ca | kaśyapasyātmajaṃ bālaṃ krīḍantaṃ taṃ vināyakam yathā pataṃgo dīpārciṃ hantuṃ yāti tvarānvitaḥ | trivakrāṃ bhrukuṭīṃ baddhvā vamannāsyena pāvakam
A great Daitya named Megha, having taken the form of a Gāṇaka, was slain by the blow of a ring—that was like a marvel. O king, I tell you the opinion of Bṛhaspati; hear it. Having heard it, do it, O lord of kings; then there will be welfare. With mouths torn open, suddenly eager to swallow the globe of the earth, spewing fire from their mouths, hundred-eyed, of great strength. The king of Kāśī saw his own city, and that it was well; and (he saw) Kaśyapa's son, the boy Vināyaka, playing. As a moth goes in haste to attack a lamp's flame, knitting his brow into three furrows, vomiting fire from his mouth...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.17
कूपश्च कन्दरश्चोभौ निहतौ मायिनौ बलात् । अम्भासुरोऽन्धकस्तुङ्गो नाशितुं बालमागताः बृहस्पतिरुवाच। कन्याप्रदानसहभोजनवस्त्रदानसामाभिधाननमनप्रणयमाणैः । तत्कीर्तिकीर्तनतदाप्तजनानुवादमुख्यैरुपायनिचयैरहितान्विहंस्यात् येषां नासारन्ध्रगता न दृश्यन्ते महागजाः । सूर्याचन्द्रामसौ येषां श्वासान्निपतितौ भुवि तत्प्रसादादाप्तबुद्धिर्नुनाव परया मुदा । ज्ञाता ते परमा माया मया कुक्षिगतेन च तं तथा यान्तमालोक्य काशिराजो निजं धनुः । सज्जीचकार सहसा कर्णमाकृष्य सायकम्
kūpaśca kandaraścobhau nihatau māyinau balāt | ambhāsuro'ndhakastuṅgo nāśituṃ bālamāgatāḥ bṛhaspatiruvāca| kanyāpradānasahabhojanavastradānasāmābhidhānanamanapraṇayamāṇaiḥ | tatkīrtikīrtanatadāptajanānuvādamukhyairupāyanicayairahitānvihaṃsyāt yeṣāṃ nāsārandhragatā na dṛśyante mahāgajāḥ | sūryācandrāmasau yeṣāṃ śvāsānnipatitau bhuvi tatprasādādāptabuddhirnunāva parayā mudā | jñātā te paramā māyā mayā kukṣigatena ca taṃ tathā yāntamālokya kāśirājo nijaṃ dhanuḥ | sajjīcakāra sahasā karṇamākṛṣya sāyakam
Kūpa and Kandara, both masters of illusion, were slain by force. Ambhāsura, Andhaka and Tuṅga came to destroy the boy. Bṛhaspati said: By the giving of a daughter, by eating together, by the gift of garments, by conciliatory speech, by bowing, by showing affection, by honouring; by proclaiming his fame, by the reports of people close to him, and by such foremost expedients, one should destroy one's enemies. Those in whose nostrils great elephants disappear from sight, from whose breath the sun and the moon fell to the earth—by his grace, having obtained understanding, he praised (him) with supreme joy: "Your supreme māyā has been known by me, being within your belly." Seeing him coming on in that way, the king of Kāśī at once strung his own bow, drawing the arrow to his ear.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.18
एकेनाकारितुं तमो धाराभिर्ववृषे परः । अपरस्तुङ्गशिखरो न्यपतद्बालकोपरि मुनिरुवाच । स चेद्विनायकं याचेद्दत्त्वा राज्यस्य रक्षणम् । कर्तव्यमिति मे भाति स्वहितं तद्विचिन्त्यताम् जटाभिः पृथिवी येषां सर्वा संमार्ज्यते भृशम् । सहस्रयोजनहस्ता द्विगुणाश्च तदंघ्रयः त्वमेव कर्ता देवानां मनुष्याणां दिशामपि । सर्गाणां सागराणां च सरितां बलिसद्मनाम् उवाच साम्ना दैत्यं तं निर्लज्जं बद्धमोचितम् । मा जीवं त्यज दैत्येन्द्र जीवन्भद्राणि पश्यसि
ekenākārituṃ tamo dhārābhirvavṛṣe paraḥ | aparastuṅgaśikharo nyapatadbālakopari muniruvāca | sa cedvināyakaṃ yāceddattvā rājyasya rakṣaṇam | kartavyamiti me bhāti svahitaṃ tadvicintyatām jaṭābhiḥ pṛthivī yeṣāṃ sarvā saṃmārjyate bhṛśam | sahasrayojanahastā dviguṇāśca tadaṃghrayaḥ tvameva kartā devānāṃ manuṣyāṇāṃ diśāmapi | sargāṇāṃ sāgarāṇāṃ ca saritāṃ balisadmanām uvāca sāmnā daityaṃ taṃ nirlajjaṃ baddhamocitam | mā jīvaṃ tyaja daityendra jīvanbhadrāṇi paśyasi
One (of them) set about making darkness; another rained down in torrents; another, with its lofty peak, fell upon the boy. The sage said: If he should petition Vināyaka, then, having granted protection of the kingdom, (that) is what should be done — so it seems to me; let one's own welfare be considered. Those by whose matted locks the whole earth is thoroughly swept, whose hands are a thousand leagues (long) and whose feet twice that. You alone are the maker of the gods, of men, and of the directions too, of the creations, of the oceans, of the rivers, of the dwellings of Bali. He spoke conciliatingly to that shameless Daitya who had been released from bondage: Do not give up your life, lord of Daityas; while living you (may still) see good things.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.19
महाविहङ्गरूपेण दूरे क्षिप्तास्त्रयोऽपि च । तेषां प्रतिकृतिं कर्तुं भ्रमरा नाम राक्षसी ततः सर्वजनाः साधु साध्विति प्राब्रुवन्नृपम् । सम्यगुक्तममात्येन वैरच्छेदाय भो नृप तेषां तु नायकः क्रूरो विनायकसमीपतः । आगतः परिपप्रच्छ किं कार्यं वद मे प्रभो यतस्ते रोमकूपेषु ब्रह्माण्डानां हि कोटयः । दृष्ट्वा भ्रान्तेन च मया प्रसादात्तव नाथ भो परावृत्य प्रयाहि त्वं नो चेन्मृत्युं प्रयास्यसि । क उवाच । इति तद्वाक्यमाकर्ण्य प्राह दैत्यो रुषा ज्वलन्
mahāvihaṅgarūpeṇa dūre kṣiptāstrayo'pi ca | teṣāṃ pratikṛtiṃ kartuṃ bhramarā nāma rākṣasī tataḥ sarvajanāḥ sādhu sādhviti prābruvannṛpam | samyaguktamamātyena vairacchedāya bho nṛpa teṣāṃ tu nāyakaḥ krūro vināyakasamīpataḥ | āgataḥ paripapraccha kiṃ kāryaṃ vada me prabho yataste romakūpeṣu brahmāṇḍānāṃ hi koṭayaḥ | dṛṣṭvā bhrāntena ca mayā prasādāttava nātha bho parāvṛtya prayāhi tvaṃ no cenmṛtyuṃ prayāsyasi | ka uvāca | iti tadvākyamākarṇya prāha daityo ruṣā jvalan
And all three were flung far off (by him) in the form of a huge bird. To retaliate against them, a rākṣasī named Bhramarā (was employed). Then all the people said to the king, "Well done, well done! Rightly has it been spoken by the minister, O king, for the cutting off of enmity." But their leader, cruel, came into Vināyaka's presence and asked: "Tell me, lord, what is to be done?" "Since in your hair-pores there are indeed crores of world-eggs — and I, wandering (there), have seen them by your grace, O lord. Turn back and go; if not, you will go to your death." Ka said: Hearing that speech of his, the Daitya, blazing with rage, spoke.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.21
तत आवां तडिद्रूपमास्थाय बालकं गतौ । विहन्तु तेन विधृतौ करयोर्बलशालिना मध्ये गतान्नरान्दृष्ट्वा ददहुस्तां पुरीं खलाः। प्रजज्वाल महानग्निश्चतुर्दिक्षु विदिक्षु च भक्षयस्व महासेनां नरान्तकसुपालिताम् । हत्वा तु तच्छिरो मह्यमानयस्व त्वरान्वितः नरान्तकस्य सैन्येन सा जिता तत्क्षणादनु । अमात्यपुत्रसहितो नरान्तकमुपाद्रवम् पुनर्नृपोऽब्रवीद्वाक्यं मुमूर्षुं तं नरान्तकम् । विनाशसमये मूढ विपरीता मतिर्भवेत्
tata āvāṃ taḍidrūpamāsthāya bālakaṃ gatau | vihantu tena vidhṛtau karayorbalaśālinā madhye gatānnarāndṛṣṭvā dadahustāṃ purīṃ khalāḥ| prajajvāla mahānagniścaturdikṣu vidikṣu ca bhakṣayasva mahāsenāṃ narāntakasupālitām | hatvā tu tacchiro mahyamānayasva tvarānvitaḥ narāntakasya sainyena sā jitā tatkṣaṇādanu | amātyaputrasahito narāntakamupādravam punarnṛpo'bravīdvākyaṃ mumūrṣuṃ taṃ narāntakam | vināśasamaye mūḍha viparītā matirbhavet
Then we two, assuming the form of lightning, went to the boy in order to kill (him), and were held fast in his two hands by that mighty one. Seeing the men who had gone inside, those wicked ones burned that city; a great fire blazed up in the four quarters and the intermediate quarters. "Devour the great army well guarded by Narāntaka; and having slain him, bring me his head in haste." She was conquered by Narāntaka's army that very moment; together with the minister's son I attacked Narāntaka. Again the king spoke words to that Narāntaka who was about to die: "At the time of destruction, fool, the mind becomes perverse."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.22
कृपावता विमुक्तौ च पृष्ट्वा सर्वं चिकीर्षितम् । कथयित्वोदन्तमखिलमागतौ स्वामिनं प्रति धूमेनाच्छादि तपनो न प्राज्ञायत किंचन । कल्पान्त इव तत्रासील्लोकानामतिदारुणः तत्सैन्येन न तृप्तिश्चेद्दास्ये भक्ष्यान्तरं तव । एवमाज्ञामनुप्राप्य नत्वा तं कश्यपात्मजम् विधृतस्तेन सहसा सैन्यं जित्वा मम क्षणात् । दग्धा च नगरी सर्वा दृष्टः स कालपूरुषः मित्राणि शत्रुतां यान्ति विपरीतेप्यनेहसि । त्वयाप्याचरितं पापं वरगर्वादनेकशः
kṛpāvatā vimuktau ca pṛṣṭvā sarvaṃ cikīrṣitam | kathayitvodantamakhilamāgatau svāminaṃ prati dhūmenācchādi tapano na prājñāyata kiṃcana | kalpānta iva tatrāsīllokānāmatidāruṇaḥ tatsainyena na tṛptiśceddāsye bhakṣyāntaraṃ tava | evamājñāmanuprāpya natvā taṃ kaśyapātmajam vidhṛtastena sahasā sainyaṃ jitvā mama kṣaṇāt | dagdhā ca nagarī sarvā dṛṣṭaḥ sa kālapūruṣaḥ mitrāṇi śatrutāṃ yānti viparītepyanehasi | tvayāpyācaritaṃ pāpaṃ varagarvādanekaśaḥ
And the two were released by the compassionate one, who asked all that (they) intended to do; and having told the whole account, they came to their master. The sun was covered over by smoke; nothing at all could be made out; it was there as though the end of an aeon, most dreadful for the worlds. "If there is no satisfaction from that army, I shall give you other food." Having thus received the command and bowed to that son of Kaśyapa — "held back by him suddenly, though I had conquered the army in a moment, and the whole city was burned, that Man of Time was seen." Friends turn to enmity when the time is adverse; by you too, out of pride in your boon, sin has been done many times over.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.23
एकदा नगरे तत्र सर्वैरेकः समाहृतः । भोजनाय च शुक्लेन दरिद्रेण विनायकः ध्रियन्ते ते परैर्येऽग्निभयाद्यान्ति बहिर्नराः । सबाला योषितश्चापि लिलिंगुश्च चुचम्बिरे महाक्ष्वेडितशब्दं तु कृत्वा यातो नरान्तकम् । तस्य श्वेडितशब्दस्य नादृग्रूपेण सैनिकाः तेनापि भक्षिता तस्य सेना नानाविधा क्षणात् । धृत्वा नरान्तकं यातः पुरुषः स तवान्तिकम् वरस्यैव प्रभावेण न वजं गणितं त्वया । इदानीमवतीर्णोऽयं त्वादृशानां वधाय च
ekadā nagare tatra sarvairekaḥ samāhṛtaḥ | bhojanāya ca śuklena daridreṇa vināyakaḥ dhriyante te parairye'gnibhayādyānti bahirnarāḥ | sabālā yoṣitaścāpi liliṃguśca cucambire mahākṣveḍitaśabdaṃ tu kṛtvā yāto narāntakam | tasya śveḍitaśabdasya nādṛgrūpeṇa sainikāḥ tenāpi bhakṣitā tasya senā nānāvidhā kṣaṇāt | dhṛtvā narāntakaṃ yātaḥ puruṣaḥ sa tavāntikam varasyaiva prabhāveṇa na vajaṃ gaṇitaṃ tvayā | idānīmavatīrṇo'yaṃ tvādṛśānāṃ vadhāya ca
Once in that city Vināyaka alone was invited by all for a meal, by a poor man, Śukla. Those men who go outside out of fear of the fire are seized by the enemy; and the women too, with their children, clung to (him) and kissed (him). Making a great roaring cry he went against Narāntaka; by that hissing sound the soldiers, in unseen form (were struck). By him too that army of his, of many kinds, was devoured in a moment; and seizing Narāntaka that man went into your presence. By the power of the boon alone you reckoned even the thunderbolt as nothing; now this one has descended for the slaying of such as you.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.24
विशीर्णमोदनं भुक्त्वा सह तैलेन प्राग्विभुः । पश्चाद्गतोऽनन्तकायो भोक्तुं सर्वगृहेषु सः पतिव्रतास्त्यजुः प्राणाँल्लज्जयाऽतिपरिप्लुताः । आरुह्य गोपुरं काश्चिद्देहत्यागं प्रचक्रिरे नरान्तकोऽपि भीतास्ते दुद्रुवुस्ते दिशो दश । हस्ते धृत्वा तु तान्सर्वान्मुखमध्ये समाक्षिपत् सर्वे त्वदुदरं यातास्तत्र दृष्टोऽसि मे प्रभो । सर्वं दृष्टं च तत्रापि जम्बुद्वीपं सविस्तरम् कश्यपस्यात्मजो भारं हर्तुं भूमिगतं दृढम् । वरः पुण्यं च शिथिलं जातं ते पापसंचयात्
viśīrṇamodanaṃ bhuktvā saha tailena prāgvibhuḥ | paścādgato'nantakāyo bhoktuṃ sarvagṛheṣu saḥ pativratāstyajuḥ prāṇā~llajjayā'tipariplutāḥ | āruhya gopuraṃ kāściddehatyāgaṃ pracakrire narāntako'pi bhītāste dudruvuste diśo daśa | haste dhṛtvā tu tānsarvānmukhamadhye samākṣipat sarve tvadudaraṃ yātāstatra dṛṣṭo'si me prabho | sarvaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ ca tatrāpi jambudvīpaṃ savistaram kaśyapasyātmajo bhāraṃ hartuṃ bhūmigataṃ dṛḍham | varaḥ puṇyaṃ ca śithilaṃ jātaṃ te pāpasaṃcayāt
First the Lord ate crumbled boiled rice with oil; afterwards, having become of endless body, he went to eat in all the houses. The faithful wives, overwhelmed with shame, gave up their lives; some, climbing the gate-tower, cast off their bodies. Narāntaka too — they in terror fled in the ten directions; and taking them all in his hand he flung them into his mouth. "All went into your belly; there you were seen by me, lord, and there too the whole of Jambudvīpa was seen in full extent." The son of Kaśyapa (has come) to remove the burden firmly set upon the earth; your boon and your merit have become weak because of your heap of sin.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.25
सर्वत्र काशिराजेन सहितो बुभुजे हि सः । काशिराजेन मूढेन न ज्ञातं तद्विचेष्टितम अपरास्तत्यजुः प्राणां शस्त्रैः पाशैर्विषैरपि । अतिरम्या धृता दूतैर्नीतास्ता स्वामिनं प्रति उद्दुधूल रजो भौमं न प्राज्ञायत किंचन । अन्धकारे महाघोरे दीपिकाभिर्व्यलोकयन् एवं कोष्ठान्तरे दृष्टं भूतलं च सविस्तरम् । ततो हि खिन्नास्त्वां याता: शरणं जगदीश्वर भारतीमेवमाश्रुत्य चकम्पे हृदि दैत्यराट् । धावयित्वा नृपकराज्जगृहे सशरं धनुः
sarvatra kāśirājena sahito bubhuje hi saḥ | kāśirājena mūḍhena na jñātaṃ tadviceṣṭitama aparāstatyajuḥ prāṇāṃ śastraiḥ pāśairviṣairapi | atiramyā dhṛtā dūtairnītāstā svāminaṃ prati uddudhūla rajo bhaumaṃ na prājñāyata kiṃcana | andhakāre mahāghore dīpikābhirvyalokayan evaṃ koṣṭhāntare dṛṣṭaṃ bhūtalaṃ ca savistaram | tato hi khinnāstvāṃ yātā: śaraṇaṃ jagadīśvara bhāratīmevamāśrutya cakampe hṛdi daityarāṭ | dhāvayitvā nṛpakarājjagṛhe saśaraṃ dhanuḥ
Everywhere, together with the king of Kāśī, he indeed ate; by the foolish king of Kāśī his doings were not recognised. Other (women) gave up their lives by weapons, by nooses, and by poisons too; the most lovely were seized by the messengers and led to their master. Earthly dust rose up; nothing at all could be made out; in that great and dreadful darkness they looked about with torches. Thus within the belly the earth's surface too was seen in full extent; then, distressed, they went to you for refuge, lord of the world. Hearing this speech, the Daitya king trembled in his heart; urging (his horse) on, he seized from the king's hand the bow with its arrow.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.26
स्वामिन्नेतादृशी शक्तिः क्वापि दृष्टा न च श्रुता। इदानीं यद्धितं ते स्यात्तद्धि सम्यग्विधीयताम् नरान्तकेन भुक्त्वा ताः प्रेषिता नगरं स्वयम् । एवं तं प्रलयं दृष्ट्वाऽमात्यानूचे नृपः पुनः तं दृष्ट्वा पुरुषं घोरं केचित्प्राणान्प्रजह्रिरे। तांश्चापि जीवतः सर्वांस्त्वरया भक्षयत्यसौ त्वदाज्ञया तु रोमांचदारेण निर्गता बहिः । पुनर्दृष्टोऽसि बालस्त्वं निजं च भवनं महत् बलाच्चिक्षेप भूमौ तच्छतधा च व्यशीर्यत । अहनन्मुष्टिघातेन तं नृपं स नरान्तकः
svāminnetādṛśī śaktiḥ kvāpi dṛṣṭā na ca śrutā| idānīṃ yaddhitaṃ te syāttaddhi samyagvidhīyatām narāntakena bhuktvā tāḥ preṣitā nagaraṃ svayam | evaṃ taṃ pralayaṃ dṛṣṭvā'mātyānūce nṛpaḥ punaḥ taṃ dṛṣṭvā puruṣaṃ ghoraṃ kecitprāṇānprajahrire| tāṃścāpi jīvataḥ sarvāṃstvarayā bhakṣayatyasau tvadājñayā tu romāṃcadāreṇa nirgatā bahiḥ | punardṛṣṭo'si bālastvaṃ nijaṃ ca bhavanaṃ mahat balāccikṣepa bhūmau tacchatadhā ca vyaśīryata | ahananmuṣṭighātena taṃ nṛpaṃ sa narāntakaḥ
"Lord, such power has nowhere been seen or heard of. Now let whatever is good for you be properly arranged." Having eaten, Narāntaka himself sent them to the city. Seeing that destruction in this way, the king spoke again to his ministers. Seeing that dreadful man some gave up their lives; and all of them, still living, this one swiftly devours. But by your command they went out through the door of a hair-pore; and again you were seen as a boy. And his own great palace he flung forcibly to the ground and it shattered into a hundred pieces; that Narāntaka struck down that king with a blow of his fist.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.27
जानीवहे न जेताऽस्य त्रैलोक्ये विद्यते पुमान् । मुनिरुवाच ॥ इत्थं श्रुत्वा तयोर्वाक्यं प्रजज्वाल सुरान्तकः । वमति स्म मुखाग्निं विश्वमत्तुं प्रसारितात् अस्मत्समक्षं योषाश्चेन्नीता दुष्टर्दुरात्मभिः । तदाऽयशो महन्न स्यात्तस्माद्युध्यामहेऽसुरैः नरान्तकस्तु दृष्ट्वैवं सर्वसैन्यविनाशनम् । अतर्कयत्स्वमनसा कृतान्तस्यान्तकोऽपरः किमिदं कौतुकं देव मायाजालमिदं विभो । कश्चासौ पुरुषो देव येनाभक्षि महाचमूः पतितः स धरापृष्ठे वज्राहत इवाचलः । दृष्ट्रवा विनायकोऽधावत्सृणिहस्तो महाबलः
jānīvahe na jetā'sya trailokye vidyate pumān | muniruvāca || itthaṃ śrutvā tayorvākyaṃ prajajvāla surāntakaḥ | vamati sma mukhāgniṃ viśvamattuṃ prasāritāt asmatsamakṣaṃ yoṣāścennītā duṣṭardurātmabhiḥ | tadā'yaśo mahanna syāttasmādyudhyāmahe'suraiḥ narāntakastu dṛṣṭvaivaṃ sarvasainyavināśanam | atarkayatsvamanasā kṛtāntasyāntako'paraḥ kimidaṃ kautukaṃ deva māyājālamidaṃ vibho | kaścāsau puruṣo deva yenābhakṣi mahācamūḥ patitaḥ sa dharāpṛṣṭhe vajrāhata ivācalaḥ | dṛṣṭravā vināyako'dhāvatsṛṇihasto mahābalaḥ
"We two know there is no man in the three worlds who can conquer him." The sage said: Hearing thus the speech of those two, Surāntaka blazed up; he vomited fire from his mouth, opened wide to devour the universe. "If in our very presence women have been carried off by wicked evil-souled ones, would there not then be great disgrace? Therefore let us fight with the asuras." But Narāntaka, seeing in this way the destruction of his whole army, reflected in his own mind: (this is) another ender of Death himself. "What is this marvel, god? This is a web of illusion, O lord! And who is that man, god, by whom the great army was devoured?" He fell on the earth's surface like a mountain struck by the thunderbolt; seeing (it) Vināyaka, of great strength, ran up with the goad in his hand.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.28
कपिरुड्डानशीलोऽपि न सिंहं बाधते क्वचित् । बद्ध्वा तु भ्रुकुटीमुग्रामुवाच स नरान्तकः एवमुक्त्वा स्वमश्वं स प्रेरयन्युद्धदुर्मदः । सज्यं कृत्वा धनुः सद्यो बाणवृष्टिमथाकरोत् आगतः किं मया कार्यं दृश्यते बलवानयम । एवं वदन्ददर्शाथ सेनामर्द्धां तु भक्षिताम् केनासौ विधृतो दैत्यो रक्षितश्चापि केन च । केनादर्शि च रोमांचद्वारं निर्गमनाय च गर्जयन्गगनं सर्वं दिशश्च विदिशः स्वनैः । चकम्पे पृथिवी सर्वां दिशः प्रज्वलिता इव
kapiruḍḍānaśīlo'pi na siṃhaṃ bādhate kvacit | baddhvā tu bhrukuṭīmugrāmuvāca sa narāntakaḥ evamuktvā svamaśvaṃ sa prerayanyuddhadurmadaḥ | sajyaṃ kṛtvā dhanuḥ sadyo bāṇavṛṣṭimathākarot āgataḥ kiṃ mayā kāryaṃ dṛśyate balavānayama | evaṃ vadandadarśātha senāmarddhāṃ tu bhakṣitām kenāsau vidhṛto daityo rakṣitaścāpi kena ca | kenādarśi ca romāṃcadvāraṃ nirgamanāya ca garjayangaganaṃ sarvaṃ diśaśca vidiśaḥ svanaiḥ | cakampe pṛthivī sarvāṃ diśaḥ prajvalitā iva
Even a monkey given to leaping never harasses a lion. Knitting his brows fiercely, that Narāntaka spoke. Having spoken thus, urging on his horse, mad with battle-fury, at once he strung his bow and then made a rain of arrows. "(He) has come — what is to be done by me? This one looks strong." Speaking thus he then saw half the army devoured. "By whom was that Daitya held fast, and by whom protected? And by whom was the door of the hair-pore shown him for his getting out?" Making all the sky and the quarters and the intermediate quarters roar with his cries — the whole earth trembled, and the directions seemed to blaze.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.29
ग्रासशीलश्चाजगरो न महीं ग्रसते क्वचित् । आश्चर्यं ममचित्ते तु भवद्वाक्यादुपागतम् आच्छादितो रश्मिमाली दैत्या मोहमुपागमन् । धाराधरा यथा धारा विमुंचन्ति तथा धनुः प्रलयानलवच्चायं पृतनां हरते बलात । निःशेषामेव कर्ताऽमुमगस्त्य इव वारिधिम् इति मे संशयं देव नुद भक्तस्य यत्नतः । क उवाच । एवं तेन कृतः प्रश्नो मस्तके तस्य धीमतः तेजसा परशोस्तस्य सर्वदृष्टिहरेण च । तेनाहनद्दैत्यशिरो यथेन्द्रो गिरिमुत्कटम्
grāsaśīlaścājagaro na mahīṃ grasate kvacit | āścaryaṃ mamacitte tu bhavadvākyādupāgatam ācchādito raśmimālī daityā mohamupāgaman | dhārādharā yathā dhārā vimuṃcanti tathā dhanuḥ pralayānalavaccāyaṃ pṛtanāṃ harate balāta | niḥśeṣāmeva kartā'mumagastya iva vāridhim iti me saṃśayaṃ deva nuda bhaktasya yatnataḥ | ka uvāca | evaṃ tena kṛtaḥ praśno mastake tasya dhīmataḥ tejasā paraśostasya sarvadṛṣṭihareṇa ca | tenāhanaddaityaśiro yathendro girimutkaṭam
And a python, given to swallowing, never swallows the earth. But a wonder has arisen in my mind from your words. The garlanded sun was covered over; the Daityas fell into a swoon. As rain-clouds release their torrents, so (did) the bow. Like the fire of dissolution this one forcibly carries off the army; he will make it utterly without remnant, as Agastya (did) the ocean. So, god, dispel this doubt of mine, your devotee's, with care. Ka said: This question having been put by him — upon the head of that wise one, by the power of that axe which takes away all sight, with it he struck off the Daitya's head as Indra (struck) a towering mountain.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.31
न दृश्यते यदा राहुस्तावत्सूर्योऽपि राजते । न दृष्टः कालरूपोऽहं तावद्बालो महानयम् केषांचिदुदरं भग्नं परेषां बाहवो हताः । केषांचित्स्फोटिता नेत्राः केषांचिदुरवोऽपि च श्वासानिलाहताः केचित्केचिद्भीत्यैव मम्रिरे । परस्परोपरि तदा वीरा निपतिताः परे तुष्टाव परया भक्त्या देवदेवं विनायकम् । राजोवाच । त्वमेव ब्रह्मा विष्णुश्च महेशो भानुरेव च उदतिष्ठत्क्षणाद्दैत्यो हस्ताभ्यां पर्वतावुभौ । प्रगृह्य च प्रचिक्षेप विनायकजिघांसया
na dṛśyate yadā rāhustāvatsūryo'pi rājate | na dṛṣṭaḥ kālarūpo'haṃ tāvadbālo mahānayam keṣāṃcidudaraṃ bhagnaṃ pareṣāṃ bāhavo hatāḥ | keṣāṃcitsphoṭitā netrāḥ keṣāṃciduravo'pi ca śvāsānilāhatāḥ kecitkecidbhītyaiva mamrire | parasparopari tadā vīrā nipatitāḥ pare tuṣṭāva parayā bhaktyā devadevaṃ vināyakam | rājovāca | tvameva brahmā viṣṇuśca maheśo bhānureva ca udatiṣṭhatkṣaṇāddaityo hastābhyāṃ parvatāvubhau | pragṛhya ca pracikṣepa vināyakajighāṃsayā
"You two should know that boy, along with the king of Kāśī, has gone to heaven; where those Daityas were slain, there he will go." The ministers with the army followed the king of Kāśī; with swords and axes they slew those enemy warriors. "Come, come here to save us!" they cried out to Narāntaka; struck down by his hand, this one devours them at once. You alone are the earth, the wind, the sky, the directions, the trees; together with the mountains, the Siddhas, Gandharvas, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas. The two were pulverised into a hundred pieces by him, the axe-wielder; then the Daitya king by his magic took on many forms.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.32
सकाशिराजं तं बालं जानीयातां दिवं गतम् । यत्र ते निहता दैत्या गतास्तत्र गमिष्यति अमात्याः सेनया सार्द्धं काशीराजं समन्वयुः । खड्गैः परश्वधैस्ते तान्परवीरान्निजघ्निरे याहि याहीहि वस्त्रातुं चुक्रुशुस्तं नरान्तकम् । कराघातेन निहतान्भक्षयत्येष तत्क्षणात् त्वमेव पृथिवि वायुरन्तरिक्षं दिशो द्रुमाः । पर्वतैः सहिताः सिद्धा गन्धर्वा यक्षराक्षसाः शतधा चूर्णितौ तेन मुद्रा परशुघातिना । मायया दैत्यराजोऽथ नानारूपधरोऽभवत्
sakāśirājaṃ taṃ bālaṃ jānīyātāṃ divaṃ gatam | yatra te nihatā daityā gatāstatra gamiṣyati amātyāḥ senayā sārddhaṃ kāśīrājaṃ samanvayuḥ | khaḍgaiḥ paraśvadhaiste tānparavīrānnijaghnire yāhi yāhīhi vastrātuṃ cukruśustaṃ narāntakam | karāghātena nihatānbhakṣayatyeṣa tatkṣaṇāt tvameva pṛthivi vāyurantarikṣaṃ diśo drumāḥ | parvataiḥ sahitāḥ siddhā gandharvā yakṣarākṣasāḥ śatadhā cūrṇitau tena mudrā paraśughātinā | māyayā daityarājo'tha nānārūpadharo'bhavat
The sage said: Having spoken thus, he rose up and roared, making the quarters resound; the whole earth trembled, shaken by the noise of that roaring. Some were slain by his blows, others fell on the ground; and those Daityas too struck them down with great weapons on the battlefield. Even from devouring countless (beings) his belly-fire was not quenched — horsemen, elephant-riders, foot-soldiers, chariot-fighters, sages and men too, the standing and the moving world. You alone are all, lord of gods, the conscious and the unconscious. Whatever form he swiftly assumed, Vināyaka (assumed) that same form, and by each of these he swiftly broke the pride of the great asura.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.33
मुनिरुवाच । एवमुक्त्वा समुत्तस्थौ जगर्ज गर्जयन्दिशः । चकम्पे पृथिवी सर्वा तद्गर्जनरवाकुला तदाघातैर्हताः केचित्पतिता भूतले परे । तेऽपि दैत्या महाशस्त्रैर्निजघ्नुस्तान्रणाजिरे असंख्यभक्षणादस्य न शान्तो जठरानलः । अश्वारोहा गजारोहाः पदाता रथसादिनः मुनयो मानवाश्चापि स्थावरं जंगमं जगत् । त्वमेव सर्व देवेश सचेतनमचेतनम् यद्यद्रूपं चकाराशु तत्तद्रूपं विनायकः । भग्नदर्पं चकाराशु तेन तेन महासुरम्
muniruvāca | evamuktvā samuttasthau jagarja garjayandiśaḥ | cakampe pṛthivī sarvā tadgarjanaravākulā tadāghātairhatāḥ kecitpatitā bhūtale pare | te'pi daityā mahāśastrairnijaghnustānraṇājire asaṃkhyabhakṣaṇādasya na śānto jaṭharānalaḥ | aśvārohā gajārohāḥ padātā rathasādinaḥ munayo mānavāścāpi sthāvaraṃ jaṃgamaṃ jagat | tvameva sarva deveśa sacetanamacetanam yadyadrūpaṃ cakārāśu tattadrūpaṃ vināyakaḥ | bhagnadarpaṃ cakārāśu tena tena mahāsuram
Then he commanded all the warriors: "Be ready! Armoured, I go to the city of the king of Kāśī to fight." In the great and terrible darkness made by the army's dust, the enemy slew with their weapons warriors both their own and the others'. Mounts and elephants were devoured and slain in great numbers, O sage. Hearing such an uproar, and forcibly stringing his bow — "by merit from another birth you have been seen, son of Kaśyapa." Ka said: While the lord of kings was speaking thus, he confounded (him) that very instant. Warding off weapons with weapons and likewise the mass of missiles with missiles, thereafter the two fought each other in a wrestling match.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.34
तत आज्ञापयत्सर्वान्वीरान्सज्जी भवन्त्विति । काशिराजस्य नगरीं यामि युद्धाय दंशितः अन्धकारे महारौद्रे सेनाधूलिकृते परे । निजघ्नुरेव शस्त्रैस्ते वीरान्स्वांश्च परानपि भक्षिता निहता वाहा गजाश्चानेकशो मुने । एवं कोलाहलं श्रुत्वा सज्यं कृत्वा धनुर्बलात् जन्मान्तरीयपुण्येन दृष्टोऽसि कश्यपात्मज। क उवाच । एवं ब्रुवति राजेन्द्रे मोहयामास तत्क्षणात् शस्त्रैः शस्त्राणि संवार्य तथाऽस्त्रैरस्त्रसंचयम् । ततस्तु मल्लयुद्धेन युयुधाते परस्परम्
tata ājñāpayatsarvānvīrānsajjī bhavantviti | kāśirājasya nagarīṃ yāmi yuddhāya daṃśitaḥ andhakāre mahāraudre senādhūlikṛte pare | nijaghnureva śastraiste vīrānsvāṃśca parānapi bhakṣitā nihatā vāhā gajāścānekaśo mune | evaṃ kolāhalaṃ śrutvā sajyaṃ kṛtvā dhanurbalāt janmāntarīyapuṇyena dṛṣṭo'si kaśyapātmaja| ka uvāca | evaṃ bruvati rājendre mohayāmāsa tatkṣaṇāt śastraiḥ śastrāṇi saṃvārya tathā'strairastrasaṃcayam | tatastu mallayuddhena yuyudhāte parasparam
While he was speaking thus, the army came up fully armed, dreadful, bringing peace to all, with its four divisions and its banners. And they wrestled, each wishing to defeat the other — with horsemen, elephant-riders, chariot-riders and foot-soldiers. Setting both knees on the ground and arrows on either side, taking up his bow and drawing it, he then made a rain of arrows. Then the king worshipped this Vināyaka, the unailing one; then the citizens, filled with joy, came to see the king. They struck foot against foot and hand against hand, and both knees against knees, the two like kiṃśuka trees in bloom.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.35
तस्मिन्वदति सेनेत्थं सन्नद्धा समुपागता । सर्वशान्तिकरा घोरा चतुरङ्गध्वजान्विता मल्लयुद्धं च चक्रुस्ते परस्परजिगीषया । अश्वारूढैर्गजारूढै रथारूढैः पदातिभिः धरण्यां जानुनी स्थाप्य शरानुभयतस्तथा । आदाय धनुराकृष्य शरवृष्टिं तदाऽकरोत् ततो राजा पुपूजैनं विनायकमनामयम् । ततः पौरा हर्षयुता राजानं द्रष्टुमाययुः चरणं चरणेनैव हस्तं हस्तेन जघ्नतुः । जानुभ्यां जानुनी चोभौ पुष्पिताविव किंशुकौ
tasminvadati senetthaṃ sannaddhā samupāgatā | sarvaśāntikarā ghorā caturaṅgadhvajānvitā mallayuddhaṃ ca cakruste parasparajigīṣayā | aśvārūḍhairgajārūḍhai rathārūḍhaiḥ padātibhiḥ dharaṇyāṃ jānunī sthāpya śarānubhayatastathā | ādāya dhanurākṛṣya śaravṛṣṭiṃ tadā'karot tato rājā pupūjainaṃ vināyakamanāmayam | tataḥ paurā harṣayutā rājānaṃ draṣṭumāyayuḥ caraṇaṃ caraṇenaiva hastaṃ hastena jaghnatuḥ | jānubhyāṃ jānunī cobhau puṣpitāviva kiṃśukau
The whole horizon was filled with the army's dust; the sun being covered, nothing could be made out. Foot-soldiers and chariot-riders fought with weapons and arrows; so that battle with the enemy became confused and tumultuous. Then again there was darkness, made by the rain of arrows; birds fell to the ground, and the king's servants in great numbers. Bowing again and again they gave him garments and ornaments; the king too had garments given to them in great numbers. Chest fell against chest upon the earth's surface; rising up again, the two strong ones struck with their elbows.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.36
सैन्येन रजसा सर्वं व्याप्तमासीद्दिगन्तरम् । आच्छादिते दिनकरे न प्राज्ञायत किंचन पदाताश्च रथारूढा युयुधुः शस्त्रसायकैः । एवं संभ्रान्तमभवत्तद्युद्धं तुमुलं परैः ततोऽन्धकारमभवच्छरवृष्टिकृतं पुनः । पक्षिणः पतिता भूमौ राज्ञो भृत्या अनेकशः नत्वा नत्वा ददुस्तस्मै वस्त्राण्याभरणानि च । राजाऽपि दापयामास तेभ्यो वस्त्राण्यनेकशः वक्षसा चैव वक्षश्च पेततुर्धरणीतले । पुनरुत्थाय बलिनौ कूर्पराभ्यां निजघ्नतुः
sainyena rajasā sarvaṃ vyāptamāsīddigantaram | ācchādite dinakare na prājñāyata kiṃcana padātāśca rathārūḍhā yuyudhuḥ śastrasāyakaiḥ | evaṃ saṃbhrāntamabhavattadyuddhaṃ tumulaṃ paraiḥ tato'ndhakāramabhavaccharavṛṣṭikṛtaṃ punaḥ | pakṣiṇaḥ patitā bhūmau rājño bhṛtyā anekaśaḥ natvā natvā dadustasmai vastrāṇyābharaṇāni ca | rājā'pi dāpayāmāsa tebhyo vastrāṇyanekaśaḥ vakṣasā caiva vakṣaśca petaturdharaṇītale | punarutthāya balinau kūrparābhyāṃ nijaghnatuḥ
Foot-soldiers too, countless, their heads red with vermilion, running with leap after leap, waged a sham battle. That Daitya army, broken, then turned its face away; the king of Kāśī, victorious, uttered a loud lion's roar. That man swallows the arrows discharged by the Daityas; countless arrows came out from his hair-pores. Having released all those worlds, he then went to his mother: "By your grace, mother, your two feet have been seen by me." Again the Daitya, calling Mahādeva to mind, hurled trees; running back against back, forehead against forehead.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.37
पदातयोऽप्यसंख्येयाः सिन्दूरारुणमस्तकाः । उड्डीयोड्डीय धावन्तो मिथ्यायुद्धं प्रचक्रिरे प्रभग्ना दैत्यसेना सा तदा याता परांगमुखी। सिंहनादं चकारोच्चैः काशिराजो जयान्वितः स गीलयति पुरुषो बाणान्दैत्यसमीरितान्। असंख्याताः शरास्तस्य रोमकूपेषु निर्गताः विसृज्य लोकांस्तान्सर्वाञ्जननीमभ्यगात्ततः । तव प्रसादान्मातस्ते दृष्टं पादयुगं मया पुनर्दैत्यो महादेवं स्मृत्वा वृक्षानवासृजत् । पृष्ठेन पृष्ठं धावन्तो ललाटेन ललाटकम्
padātayo'pyasaṃkhyeyāḥ sindūrāruṇamastakāḥ | uḍḍīyoḍḍīya dhāvanto mithyāyuddhaṃ pracakrire prabhagnā daityasenā sā tadā yātā parāṃgamukhī| siṃhanādaṃ cakāroccaiḥ kāśirājo jayānvitaḥ sa gīlayati puruṣo bāṇāndaityasamīritān| asaṃkhyātāḥ śarāstasya romakūpeṣu nirgatāḥ visṛjya lokāṃstānsarvāñjananīmabhyagāttataḥ | tava prasādānmātaste dṛṣṭaṃ pādayugaṃ mayā punardaityo mahādevaṃ smṛtvā vṛkṣānavāsṛjat | pṛṣṭhena pṛṣṭhaṃ dhāvanto lalāṭena lalāṭakam
With hair loosened, swords in hand, with bhṛśuṇḍī(-weapons) and shields in their hands; others with stones, trees, khaṭvāṅgas, spears and nooses in their hands. In his joy he went into the midst of the army, slaying in battle the best of the best, splitting that most dreadful army like an elephant seized with battle-fury. All streaming blood, he does not feel the least pain. Then Narāntaka manfully brought forth his missiles. He was seized by the Daitya king and protected by the god of gods; then the mother, full of joy, embraced him who had come after long. Both of them streaming blood, ankle against ankle.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.38
मुक्तकेशाः खड्गहस्ता भृशुण्डीचर्मपाणयः । पाषाणद्रुमखट्वाङ्गशक्तिपाशकराः परे हर्षात्सेनान्तरं यातो निघ्नन्युद्धे वरान्वरान् । भिन्दन्सेनां महाघोरां युद्धावेशी गजो यथा स्रवन्तो रुधिरं सर्वे न जानात्यणु वेदनाम् । प्रादुश्चक्रे ततोऽस्त्राणि पौरुषेण नरान्तकः गृहीतो दैत्यराजेन देवदेवेन रक्षितः। ततो हर्षयुता मातर्लिलिंग तं चिरागतम् स्रवन्तौ रुधिरं चोभौ गुल्फाभ्यां गुल्फमेव च
muktakeśāḥ khaḍgahastā bhṛśuṇḍīcarmapāṇayaḥ | pāṣāṇadrumakhaṭvāṅgaśaktipāśakarāḥ pare harṣātsenāntaraṃ yāto nighnanyuddhe varānvarān | bhindansenāṃ mahāghorāṃ yuddhāveśī gajo yathā sravanto rudhiraṃ sarve na jānātyaṇu vedanām | prāduścakre tato'strāṇi pauruṣeṇa narāntakaḥ gṛhīto daityarājena devadevena rakṣitaḥ| tato harṣayutā mātarliliṃga taṃ cirāgatam sravantau rudhiraṃ cobhau gulphābhyāṃ gulphameva ca
Then he went to the elephant division, adorned with the sound of bells, with fine cheeks red with vermilion, gleaming with the armour on their tusks. He slew a hundred, a thousand warriors in the midst of the army; seeing him slaying thus, the enemy soldiers held him back. He swallowed all those missiles as a female python (swallows) eggs; his missiles blunted, his weapons spent, his store of arrows lost. Then the two ministers, bowing to that queen, both said: "By the power of your merit your lotus feet have been seen." And (he hurled) mountains with their trees, out of a wish to kill Vināyaka; but that Vināyaka cut them all down before they arrived.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.39
ततो ययौ गजानीकं घण्टानादविभूषितम् । सिन्दूरारुणसद्गण्डं दन्तावरणराजितम् शतं सहस्रं वीराणां सेनामध्ये जघान सः । निघ्नन्तं तं तथा दृष्ट्वा रुरुधुः परसैनिकाः तान्यस्त्राण्यगिलत्सर्वाण्यण्डान्याजगरी यथा । कुण्ठितास्त्रः क्षीणशस्त्रो नष्टसायकसञ्चयः अमात्यौ राजपत्नीं तां नत्वाहतुरुभौ तदा। तव पुण्यप्रभावेण दृष्टं ते चरणाम्बुजम् पर्वतांश्च सवृक्षांश्च विनायकजिघांसया । अप्राप्तानेव तान्सर्वांश्चिच्छेद स विनायकः
tato yayau gajānīkaṃ ghaṇṭānādavibhūṣitam | sindūrāruṇasadgaṇḍaṃ dantāvaraṇarājitam śataṃ sahasraṃ vīrāṇāṃ senāmadhye jaghāna saḥ | nighnantaṃ taṃ tathā dṛṣṭvā rurudhuḥ parasainikāḥ tānyastrāṇyagilatsarvāṇyaṇḍānyājagarī yathā | kuṇṭhitāstraḥ kṣīṇaśastro naṣṭasāyakasañcayaḥ amātyau rājapatnīṃ tāṃ natvāhaturubhau tadā| tava puṇyaprabhāveṇa dṛṣṭaṃ te caraṇāmbujam parvatāṃśca savṛkṣāṃśca vināyakajighāṃsayā | aprāptāneva tānsarvāṃściccheda sa vināyakaḥ
"If there were no elephant-drivers, then all would be lost." Then, by the water of the elephants' temporal fluid, the dust was laid. Together with the two sons of the ministers, those bulls among Daityas — the men of the army raised a great cry, "The king has been taken!" The Daitya roamed about on the earth; when he did not see him behind him, then Narāntaka went swiftly to heaven out of fear of him. And when the worlds were relieved, in a voice choked with joy — the king said: "I fell into the utmost distress, seized that instant by the Daitya." Seeing one shower, and another likewise, and yet another repelled, the king of Kāśī went far off, thinking Vināyaka dead.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.41
आधोरणा यदा न स्युस्तदा सर्वे हतं भवेत् । दानोदकेन तु रजः प्रशान्तमभवत्तदा अमात्ययोस्तु पुत्राभ्यां सह ते दैत्यपुंगवाः । सेनाचरा महाशब्दं धृतो राजेति चक्रिरे बभ्राम भूतले दैत्योऽपश्यत्पृष्ठे तु तं यदा । तदा स्वर्गं जगामाशु भयात्तस्य नरान्तकः निवृतेषु च लोकेषु हर्षगद्गगया गिरा। राजोवाच । परमं कष्टमापन्नो धृतो दैत्येन तत्क्षणात् वृष्टिमन्यां तथा चान्यां निरस्तां वीक्ष्य चापराम् । काशिराजो ययौ दूरं मृतं ज्ञात्वा विनायकम्
ādhoraṇā yadā na syustadā sarve hataṃ bhavet | dānodakena tu rajaḥ praśāntamabhavattadā amātyayostu putrābhyāṃ saha te daityapuṃgavāḥ | senācarā mahāśabdaṃ dhṛto rājeti cakrire babhrāma bhūtale daityo'paśyatpṛṣṭhe tu taṃ yadā | tadā svargaṃ jagāmāśu bhayāttasya narāntakaḥ nivṛteṣu ca lokeṣu harṣagadgagayā girā| rājovāca | paramaṃ kaṣṭamāpanno dhṛto daityena tatkṣaṇāt vṛṣṭimanyāṃ tathā cānyāṃ nirastāṃ vīkṣya cāparām | kāśirājo yayau dūraṃ mṛtaṃ jñātvā vināyakam
When the mahouts were gone, then all would be slain. But by the water (of the elephants' temple-fluid) the dust was then laid to rest. Together with the two sons of the ministers, those bulls among the Daityas — the soldiers — raised a great shout: "The king has been seized!" The Daitya roamed over the ground; and when he did not see him behind him, then Narāntaka out of fear of him went swiftly to heaven. And when the worlds were at ease, with a voice choked with joy — The king said: "I fell into the utmost distress, seized by the Daitya in that very instant." Seeing one shower (of weapons), and another, and yet another repelled, the king of Kāśī went far off, thinking Vināyaka dead.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.42
अश्वारोहास्तयोर्जग्मुर्मुकुटाटोपमस्तकाः । शस्त्रिकाचर्मनिस्त्रिंशधनुर्बाणविभूषिताः ततः सेनाचरा राज्ञो धृताः केचित्पलायिताः । मृताः केचित्क्षताः केचिच्छरणं केऽपि तान्ययुः पुनः पृष्ठे च तं दृष्ट्वा पपात धरणीतले । तत्रापि तं ददर्शाथ प्राविशद्धरणीतलम् मोचितो माययाऽनेन प्रापितौ नगरं निजम् । क उवाच । शुशुभे नगरं तच्च नानावादित्रनिस्वनैः विनायकोऽपि संक्लेशाद्हृदि चिन्तामथाकरोत् । असंख्यातबलो दैत्यो जयोपायो न दृश्यते
aśvārohāstayorjagmurmukuṭāṭopamastakāḥ | śastrikācarmanistriṃśadhanurbāṇavibhūṣitāḥ tataḥ senācarā rājño dhṛtāḥ kecitpalāyitāḥ | mṛtāḥ kecitkṣatāḥ keciccharaṇaṃ ke'pi tānyayuḥ punaḥ pṛṣṭhe ca taṃ dṛṣṭvā papāta dharaṇītale | tatrāpi taṃ dadarśātha prāviśaddharaṇītalam mocito māyayā'nena prāpitau nagaraṃ nijam | ka uvāca | śuśubhe nagaraṃ tacca nānāvāditranisvanaiḥ vināyako'pi saṃkleśādhṛdi cintāmathākarot | asaṃkhyātabalo daityo jayopāyo na dṛśyate
The horsemen of those two went forth, their heads swelling with diadems, adorned with knives, shields, swords, bows and arrows. Then some of the king's soldiers were captured, some fled; some died, some were wounded, and some went to them for refuge. Again, seeing him behind (him), he fell to the ground; there too he saw him, and then he entered into the earth. Released by this one's magic, the two were brought to their own city. Ka said: And that city shone with the sounds of many instruments. Vināyaka too, out of vexation, then pondered in his heart: "The Daitya's strength is beyond count; no means of victory is to be seen."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.43
बृंहितैर्हेषितैर्व्योम कुर्वन्तः सगुणं भृशम् । कंकालैश्च तनुत्राणैस्त्रिशूलैश्च विराजिताः महावने महोक्षेव बलवद्भिर्वृकैरिव । अमात्यपुत्रसहितं निन्युर्दूता नरान्तकम स कालपुरुषः केशे ततो दध्रे नरान्तकम् । बिलं विशन्तमुरगं गरुडोऽतिबलं यथा पताकाभिरनेकाभिर्विविधैश्च महोत्सवैः । प्रत्यानीतैः सर्वलोकैर्विनायकबलेन च कदा देवाः स्वनिलयं प्राप्स्यन्ति निहतारयः । नरान्तकोऽपि संजातो देवानामप्ययान्तकः
bṛṃhitairheṣitairvyoma kurvantaḥ saguṇaṃ bhṛśam | kaṃkālaiśca tanutrāṇaistriśūlaiśca virājitāḥ mahāvane mahokṣeva balavadbhirvṛkairiva | amātyaputrasahitaṃ ninyurdūtā narāntakama sa kālapuruṣaḥ keśe tato dadhre narāntakam | bilaṃ viśantamuragaṃ garuḍo'tibalaṃ yathā patākābhiranekābhirvividhaiśca mahotsavaiḥ | pratyānītaiḥ sarvalokairvināyakabalena ca kadā devāḥ svanilayaṃ prāpsyanti nihatārayaḥ | narāntako'pi saṃjāto devānāmapyayāntakaḥ
Filling the sky mightily with resonance by their trumpetings and neighings; resplendent with skeletons, with armour, and with tridents. As a great bull in a great forest (is dragged) by powerful wolves, so the messengers led Narāntaka away together with the ministers' sons. Then that Man of Time seized Narāntaka by the hair, as Garuḍa seizes a mighty serpent entering its hole. With banners many and manifold, with great festivities, with all the worlds brought back, and by Vināyaka's strength — When will the gods, their foes slain, reach their own abode? Narāntaka too has become the ender even of the gods.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.44
गदामुद्गरपट्टीशमहापरशुपाणयः । चक्रतोमरभस्लासिपाशसृणिकराः परे दग्धा च नगरी सर्वा निवार्यैः सैनिकैस्तु सा । ततो नरान्तकः स्वीयां जगाद वीरसत्तमान् ततो नरान्तकं प्राह पुरुषः स बलान्वितः । क्व गमिष्यसि दृष्टः सन्ममाग्रे त्वं नरान्तक कुमाराः कन्यकाश्चापि योषितः पतयोऽपि च । जनकाश्च जनन्यश्च पुत्राश्च भ्रातरस्तथा एवं चित्ते चिन्तयति वारंवारं विनातके । तूणेषु पतिता बाणाः कालदण्डोपमा दृढाः
gadāmudgarapaṭṭīśamahāparaśupāṇayaḥ | cakratomarabhaslāsipāśasṛṇikarāḥ pare dagdhā ca nagarī sarvā nivāryaiḥ sainikaistu sā | tato narāntakaḥ svīyāṃ jagāda vīrasattamān tato narāntakaṃ prāha puruṣaḥ sa balānvitaḥ | kva gamiṣyasi dṛṣṭaḥ sanmamāgre tvaṃ narāntaka kumārāḥ kanyakāścāpi yoṣitaḥ patayo'pi ca | janakāśca jananyaśca putrāśca bhrātarastathā evaṃ citte cintayati vāraṃvāraṃ vinātake | tūṇeṣu patitā bāṇāḥ kāladaṇḍopamā dṛḍhāḥ
(Some) with maces, hammers, paṭṭīśas and great axes in their hands; others with discus, tomara, javelin, sword, noose and goad in their hands. And the whole city was burnt, along with the soldiers who were to have warded (the attack) off. Then Narāntaka spoke to his own best of heroes. Then that Man, endowed with strength, said to Narāntaka: "Where will you go, Narāntaka, now that you have been seen before me?" Boys and girls too, and wives, and husbands too, and fathers and mothers and sons and brothers likewise — While Vināyaka was thinking thus in his mind again and again, arrows firm as the rod of Death fell into the quivers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.45
अश्वा अलंकृता नानालंकारैश्चामरैरपि । मनोजवा वायुवेगा व्योमैवाक्रान्तुमिच्छवः यदर्थमागता वीरास्तत्कार्यं सिद्धमेव नः । न मेऽस्ति गणना तस्य मुनिपुत्रस्य साम्प्रतम् ईश्वरस्य वरान्मत्तो वृथा देवर्षिपीडनम् । मनुष्याणां च संहारमनन्तानां महाखल लिलिंगुश्च जहर्षुश्च ददुर्दानान्यनेकशः । बुभुजुर्भोजयामासुर्लुलोकुश्च पपुर्जगुः पिनाकोऽष्टापदमयः पुरस्तस्य पपात ह । शोभयंस्तेजसा स्वेन दिशश्च विदिशोऽपि च
aśvā alaṃkṛtā nānālaṃkāraiścāmarairapi | manojavā vāyuvegā vyomaivākrāntumicchavaḥ yadarthamāgatā vīrāstatkāryaṃ siddhameva naḥ | na me'sti gaṇanā tasya muniputrasya sāmpratam īśvarasya varānmatto vṛthā devarṣipīḍanam | manuṣyāṇāṃ ca saṃhāramanantānāṃ mahākhala liliṃguśca jaharṣuśca dadurdānānyanekaśaḥ | bubhujurbhojayāmāsurlulokuśca papurjaguḥ pināko'ṣṭāpadamayaḥ purastasya papāta ha | śobhayaṃstejasā svena diśaśca vidiśo'pi ca
Horses adorned with various ornaments and with chowries too, swift as thought, with the speed of wind, wishing to overrun the very sky. The purpose for which we heroes have come — that task of ours is as good as accomplished. "For me there is now no reckoning of that sage's son. Drunk with Īśvara's boon, (yours has been) a vain tormenting of gods and seers, and a slaughter of countless men, O great villain." They embraced and rejoiced, and gave gifts many times over; they ate and fed others, and gazed about, and drank, and sang. The golden Pināka bow fell down before him, brightening with its own splendour the quarters and the intermediate quarters.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.46
ततः सुवर्णरजतमुक्तामणिविभूषितम् । सुवर्णाक्षैर्ध्वजैर्युक्तं नानालंकृतवाजिभिः जिते प्रभौ जिता सेना जिते दुर्गे जितं पुरम् । काशिराजे जिते बालो जित एव न संशयः तव संहरणे दुष्टावतीर्णोऽस्ति विनायकः । अहंकारं च सकलं त्यक्त्वा तं शरणं व्रज कार्मुकं तु स्फुरत्कान्ति दृष्ट्वा सर्वं जहर्ष सः । मेने जितं तं च दैत्यं सिद्धं च देवकांक्षितम्
tataḥ suvarṇarajatamuktāmaṇivibhūṣitam | suvarṇākṣairdhvajairyuktaṃ nānālaṃkṛtavājibhiḥ jite prabhau jitā senā jite durge jitaṃ puram | kāśirāje jite bālo jita eva na saṃśayaḥ tava saṃharaṇe duṣṭāvatīrṇo'sti vināyakaḥ | ahaṃkāraṃ ca sakalaṃ tyaktvā taṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja kārmukaṃ tu sphuratkānti dṛṣṭvā sarvaṃ jaharṣa saḥ | mene jitaṃ taṃ ca daityaṃ siddhaṃ ca devakāṃkṣitam
Then (a chariot) adorned with gold, silver, pearls and gems, furnished with banners with golden axles, with horses variously bedecked. "When the lord is conquered the army is conquered; when the fort is conquered the city is conquered. If the king of Kāśī is conquered, the boy too is conquered indeed — no doubt of it." "Vināyaka has come down for your destruction, wicked one; abandoning all your pride, go to him for refuge." Seeing the whole bow with its flashing beauty, he rejoiced; he reckoned that Daitya conquered and the gods' desire fulfilled.
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GnP 2 56.47
नानायुद्धसमूहैश्च धनुर्बाणशतैर्युतम् । कार्तस्वरमहाचक्रं किंकिणीजालमण्डितम् अथानेष्यति राजाऽयं बालं निग्रहतोऽधुना । एवमुक्त्वा ययौ वाद्यनिर्घोषैः स तथा पुरीम् अघानि ते विनश्यन्ति दृष्ट्वा तत्पादपंकजम् । इत्युक्त्वा तं बलाद्दैत्यमानिनाय नरान्तकम् जग्राह बाणान्कोदण्डं कृत्वा क्ष्वेडितमुच्चकैः । पिनाकं तोलयामास सज्यं चक्रे धनुस्तदा
nānāyuddhasamūhaiśca dhanurbāṇaśatairyutam | kārtasvaramahācakraṃ kiṃkiṇījālamaṇḍitam athāneṣyati rājā'yaṃ bālaṃ nigrahato'dhunā | evamuktvā yayau vādyanirghoṣaiḥ sa tathā purīm aghāni te vinaśyanti dṛṣṭvā tatpādapaṃkajam | ityuktvā taṃ balāddaityamānināya narāntakam jagrāha bāṇānkodaṇḍaṃ kṛtvā kṣveḍitamuccakaiḥ | pinākaṃ tolayāmāsa sajyaṃ cakre dhanustadā
...with masses of manifold weapons, with hundreds of bows and arrows, a great golden wheel adorned with a net of tinkling bells. "Now this king will bring the boy here by constraint." Having said so, he went to the city thus, with the blare of music. "Your sins perish at the sight of his lotus-feet." Having said this, he forcibly brought that Daitya Narāntaka. He grasped the arrows and the bow, uttered a loud whoop, poised the Pināka, and then strung the bow.
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GnP 2 56.48
महारथी महामात्यौ रथमास्थाय निर्ययौ । कृष्णदेहो महाकायो वीरकंकणशोभितः काशिराजं पुरस्कृत्य स्तूयमानोऽथ बन्दिभिः । यच्छन्वस्तूनि बन्दिभ्यो ददौ विप्रेभ्य एव च विनायकस्य निकटे दैत्यराजं परं ततः । उवाचाथ प्रणम्यासौ स्वामिनं तं विनायकम् पृथिव्या जानुनी स्थाप्य तूणौ चोभयतस्तथा । तद्धनुःशब्दमाकर्ण्य चकम्पे भुवनत्रयम्
mahārathī mahāmātyau rathamāsthāya niryayau | kṛṣṇadeho mahākāyo vīrakaṃkaṇaśobhitaḥ kāśirājaṃ puraskṛtya stūyamāno'tha bandibhiḥ | yacchanvastūni bandibhyo dadau viprebhya eva ca vināyakasya nikaṭe daityarājaṃ paraṃ tataḥ | uvācātha praṇamyāsau svāminaṃ taṃ vināyakam pṛthivyā jānunī sthāpya tūṇau cobhayatastathā | taddhanuḥśabdamākarṇya cakampe bhuvanatrayam
The great chariot-warrior, mounting the chariot with his two chief ministers, went forth — black-bodied, huge of frame, resplendent with a hero's bracelet. Placing the king of Kāśī in front, being praised by bards, giving goods to the bards and to the brahmins as well. Then, near Vināyaka, the Daitya king further — then, having bowed, he spoke to that lord Vināyaka. Setting both knees on the earth and the two quivers on either side — hearing the sound of that bow, the three worlds trembled.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.49
लसत्कुण्डलसुश्रोत्रो महामुकुटमण्डितः । मुक्तासुवर्णमालाढ्यो मुद्रिकाखड्गमंडितः भक्षितं सर्वसैन्यं ते आज्ञां प्राप्य महत्तरम् । अत्यन्तं क्लेशितोऽनेन धृत्वैनं त्वां समानयम् सव्यदक्षिणहस्ताभ्यामाकृष्य सायकद्वयम् । मुमोच दैत्यमालक्ष्य मुंचन्नग्निकणान्मुहुः
lasatkuṇḍalasuśrotro mahāmukuṭamaṇḍitaḥ | muktāsuvarṇamālāḍhyo mudrikākhaḍgamaṃḍitaḥ bhakṣitaṃ sarvasainyaṃ te ājñāṃ prāpya mahattaram | atyantaṃ kleśito'nena dhṛtvainaṃ tvāṃ samānayam savyadakṣiṇahastābhyāmākṛṣya sāyakadvayam | mumoca daityamālakṣya muṃcannagnikaṇānmuhuḥ
His ears fair with glittering earrings, adorned with a great diadem, rich with garlands of pearl and gold, set off by a signet-ring and a sword. "Your whole army has been devoured. Having received your most weighty command, and being exceedingly harassed by him, I have seized him and brought him to you." Drawing two arrows with his left and right hands, he loosed them, aiming at the Daitya, they scattering sparks of fire again and again.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.51
वीरावेशेन स बभौ रोगी शोफां गतो यथा । नानावादित्रनिर्घोषैर्नादयन्विदिशो दिशः एवं तद्वाक्यमाकर्ण्य तं विभुः प्रत्यभाषत । मम वक्त्रान्तर्गतस्त्वं निद्रां प्राप्नुहि स्वेच्छया उल्कैव पात्तयामास भुजौ वृक्षाविवास्य तत् । यथेन्द्रो वज्रघातेन पर्वतस्येव सानुनी
vīrāveśena sa babhau rogī śophāṃ gato yathā | nānāvāditranirghoṣairnādayanvidiśo diśaḥ evaṃ tadvākyamākarṇya taṃ vibhuḥ pratyabhāṣata | mama vaktrāntargatastvaṃ nidrāṃ prāpnuhi svecchayā ulkaiva pāttayāmāsa bhujau vṛkṣāvivāsya tat | yathendro vajraghātena parvatasyeva sānunī
By his possession by heroic frenzy he looked like a sick man gone swollen with dropsy, making the quarters and the intermediate quarters resound with the noise of many instruments. Hearing that speech of his, the Lord answered him: "Once you are inside my mouth, sleep at your pleasure." Like a firebrand it felled his two arms, like two trees, as Indra (fells) the two peaks of a mountain with the blow of the thunderbolt.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.52
वीरा विनायकं जेतुं दृष्टा गर्जन्त्यनेकशः । बृंहितैर्हेषितैः क्ष्वेडै रथनेमिस्वनैरपि इत्याकर्ण्य महावाक्यं विनायकमुखोद्गतम्। तन्मुखं प्रविवेशाथ तद्रूपं समपद्यत नरान्तकद्वारदेशे महानकोऽपतत्करः । अपरस्तत्पितुर्द्वारि चूर्णयन्याणि संचयान्
vīrā vināyakaṃ jetuṃ dṛṣṭā garjantyanekaśaḥ | bṛṃhitairheṣitaiḥ kṣveḍai rathanemisvanairapi ityākarṇya mahāvākyaṃ vināyakamukhodgatam| tanmukhaṃ praviveśātha tadrūpaṃ samapadyata narāntakadvāradeśe mahānako'patatkaraḥ | aparastatpiturdvāri cūrṇayanyāṇi saṃcayān
The heroes, seen (coming) to conquer Vināyaka, roar many times over, with trumpetings, neighings, whoops, and the sounds of chariot-rims too. Hearing this great word issuing from Vināyaka's mouth, he then entered that mouth and took on that form. One hand fell at the door of Narāntaka's dwelling, the other at his father's door, pulverizing the heaps of (things there).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.53
निनादं तं समाकर्ण्य त्रस्ता देवा दरीं ययुः । एवं नरान्तकः काशीराजस्य नगरीं ययौ यथा गन्धो धराजातस्तत्रैव परिलीयते । तथा विनायकाज्जातस्तत्रैव लयमाप्तवान् अन्यावास्तां करौ तस्य ददर्श च विनायकः । अभ्यधावत्पुनर्दैत्यो व्यादितास्य इवान्तकः
ninādaṃ taṃ samākarṇya trastā devā darīṃ yayuḥ | evaṃ narāntakaḥ kāśīrājasya nagarīṃ yayau yathā gandho dharājātastatraiva parilīyate | tathā vināyakājjātastatraiva layamāptavān anyāvāstāṃ karau tasya dadarśa ca vināyakaḥ | abhyadhāvatpunardaityo vyāditāsya ivāntakaḥ
Hearing that roar the gods in terror went to a cave. In this way Narāntaka went to the city of the king of Kāśī. As a scent arisen from the earth dissolves away in that very earth, so he who had arisen from Vināyaka attained dissolution in him. His other two hands remained, and Vināyaka saw them; the Daitya charged again, like Death with mouth agape.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 56.54
य इदं शृणुयाद्भक्त्या महदाख्यानमुत्तमम् । सर्वान्कामानवाप्याथ मुक्तिं च लभते ध्रुवम् हस्ताभ्यां तत्र पादाभ्यां चिक्षेप पादपान्बहून् । द्रुमाणां च महावृष्टिं प्रक्षिपत्स विनायके
ya idaṃ śṛṇuyādbhaktyā mahadākhyānamuttamam | sarvānkāmānavāpyātha muktiṃ ca labhate dhruvam hastābhyāṃ tatra pādābhyāṃ cikṣepa pādapānbahūn | drumāṇāṃ ca mahāvṛṣṭiṃ prakṣipatsa vināyake
Whoever hears this great and excellent narrative with devotion attains all his desires and then surely obtains liberation. There, with his hands and with his feet, he hurled many trees, casting a great rain of trees upon Vināyaka.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 56.55
अन्धकारं महच्चासीन्न प्राज्ञायत किंचन । ततोऽब्रवीद्दैत्यराजं दृष्ट्वा वीर्यं विनायकः
andhakāraṃ mahaccāsīnna prājñāyata kiṃcana | tato'bravīddaityarājaṃ dṛṣṭvā vīryaṃ vināyakaḥ
There was a great darkness, and nothing at all could be made out. Then, having seen (his) valour, Vināyaka spoke to the Daitya king.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition