Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 66

GnP 2 66.1

क उवाच । शारदा रौद्रकेतुश्च रात्रौ देवान्तकं सुतम् । एकाकिनं निरीक्ष्यैनं नालिंग्यं च समूचतुः क उवाच । स तज्ज्ञात्वा महाश्चर्यं चकार निजचेतसि । ततो विनायकः क्रोधात्सिंहारूढो रणोत्सुकः क उवाच । ततो दैत्यो बाणयुगं मन्त्रयामास सादरम् । निद्रास्त्रेण तदा चैकं गन्धर्वास्त्रेण चापरम् क उवाच । ततो देवान्तकोऽतीव विस्मितोऽतर्कयत्तदा। यथा यथा मया माया क्रियतेऽस्य निवृत्तये क उवाच । एवं वदति यावत्स भयभ्रान्तः सुरान्तकः । तावद्देवो दधारैनमुत्संगे लघुबालवत्

ka uvāca | śāradā raudraketuśca rātrau devāntakaṃ sutam | ekākinaṃ nirīkṣyainaṃ nāliṃgyaṃ ca samūcatuḥ ka uvāca | sa tajjñātvā mahāścaryaṃ cakāra nijacetasi | tato vināyakaḥ krodhātsiṃhārūḍho raṇotsukaḥ ka uvāca | tato daityo bāṇayugaṃ mantrayāmāsa sādaram | nidrāstreṇa tadā caikaṃ gandharvāstreṇa cāparam ka uvāca | tato devāntako'tīva vismito'tarkayattadā| yathā yathā mayā māyā kriyate'sya nivṛttaye ka uvāca | evaṃ vadati yāvatsa bhayabhrāntaḥ surāntakaḥ | tāvaddevo dadhārainamutsaṃge laghubālavat

Ka said: Śāradā and Raudraketu at night, seeing their son Devāntaka alone and not to be embraced, spoke to him together. Ka said: knowing that, he marvelled greatly in his own mind; then Vināyaka in anger, mounted on his lion, eager for battle. Ka said: then the daitya reverently consecrated a pair of arrows with mantras, the one with the sleep-weapon, the other with the gandharva-weapon. Ka said: then Devāntaka, exceedingly astonished, reflected thus: "However much magic I work for his repulse..." Ka said: while he, bewildered with fear, the slayer of gods, was speaking thus, meanwhile the god held him in his lap like a little child.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 66.2

आच्छादयन्तं वदनं व्रीडितं भृशविह्वलम् । अभाषमाणं कम्पन्तं वातयुक्तमिव द्रुमम् स्निग्धत्वात्तद्भगस्याहं चलितः पतितो भुवि। महान्धकारे न ज्ञातः पलाय्य गृहमागतः पंचप्रेतासनगतौ जुहुवुस्तौ हविस्तदा। स्वजानुभागमांसानि छित्त्वा छित्त्वा च भक्तितः पुनरप्यागतो दैत्यः सद्यः सेनाविघातकः । सिद्धिसेनाचराश्चैव प्राद्रवन्दुःखिता भृशम् सर्वस्मिन्हन्यमाने तु स्वसैन्ये सिद्धयस्तदा । पलायनं समालम्ब्य ययुः सर्वा विनायकम् स्वगर्जितेन च तदा गर्जयन्गगनं दिशः । कम्पयन्सर्वलोकानां मनांसि पर्वतानपि स्थाणोर्वरस्य गर्वेण कृतं ते सर्वपीडनम् । अवधिं तस्य संप्राप्तं बुद्धिहीने न बुध्यसे छादयन्गगनं काष्ठा विससर्ज विनायकम् । निरास्यैंकेन बाणेन खमध्ये तान्विनायकः सिंहनादैर्बृंहितैश्च दैत्यशब्दैरनेकशः । त्रैलोक्यं कम्पितमभूद्देवाः सर्वे विसिस्मिरे वामजानुं पुरः स्थाप्य ज्यामाकृष्य ससर्ज तौ। तयोः शब्देन सहसा चकम्पे भुवनत्रयम् दैत्यान्निहत्य शतशो मांसराशिं महत्तरम् । चकाराभिचरं दैत्यो वह्निं स्थाप्य यथाविधि इदानीं सर्वसैन्यानि नाशयिष्ये तवाग्रतः । एवं ब्रुवति दैत्येन्द्रे काशिराजोऽशृणोद्वचः अन्धकारं यथा सूर्यसारथेरुदयान्मुने । ततस्ते पक्षिणः सर्वे बभक्षुर्दैत्यसैनिकान् बाणं निष्काश्य सुदृढं वज्रास्त्रेणाभिमन्त्र्य च । आक्रन्दनेन महता दैत्यसैन्ये मुमोच तम् विनायकस्य सैन्येषु महाकोलाहलो ह्यभूत् । तस्मिन्निपतिते बाणे पुरुषो घोरदर्शनः तथा तथाप्ययं बालो दर्शयत्येव पौरुषम् । कदायं निधनं यायात्कदा स्वप्स्ये गतश्रमः दैत्येन विधृताः वेगाच्चरणेषु पृथक्पृथक् । यावदास्फालयेत्पृथ्व्यां निःसृतास्तावदेव ताः मस्तके पृष्ठभागे च हृदये बाहुमण्डले । ततो शस्त्रविघातेन जातो वह्निर्वसुन्धराम् देवानां जननी चैव संप्राप्ता दुष्टसंगतिम् । काशिराजोऽपि तं दृष्ट्वा शोचन्तं गणनायकम् दैत्यौऽपि पुरतोऽपश्यद्युद्धान्ते तं विनायकम् । आरक्तनयनं भ्राजन्मुकुटं कुण्डलोज्वलम् कृत्वा पद्मासनं चारु गणेशः स्वप्रभावतः । उवाच चैनं दैत्येन्द्रं वरं स्मर निजं शुभम् एवं दृष्ट्वा गतिं तस्य सैनिकाश्च दिशो दश । याताश्च कतिचिन्नाशं प्राप्तास्तद्देहपाततः दैत्यभार भराक्रांता तस्मात्त्वं धरणीधरः । इत्युक्त्वा ते गताः स्वस्वपत्तनानि तदाज्ञया ताम्बूलानि च केषांचित्पुरस्कृत्य विनायकम् । विवेश स्वगृहं रम्यं हर्षनिर्भरमानसः

ācchādayantaṃ vadanaṃ vrīḍitaṃ bhṛśavihvalam | abhāṣamāṇaṃ kampantaṃ vātayuktamiva drumam snigdhatvāttadbhagasyāhaṃ calitaḥ patito bhuvi| mahāndhakāre na jñātaḥ palāyya gṛhamāgataḥ paṃcapretāsanagatau juhuvustau havistadā| svajānubhāgamāṃsāni chittvā chittvā ca bhaktitaḥ punarapyāgato daityaḥ sadyaḥ senāvighātakaḥ | siddhisenācarāścaiva prādravanduḥkhitā bhṛśam sarvasminhanyamāne tu svasainye siddhayastadā | palāyanaṃ samālambya yayuḥ sarvā vināyakam svagarjitena ca tadā garjayangaganaṃ diśaḥ | kampayansarvalokānāṃ manāṃsi parvatānapi sthāṇorvarasya garveṇa kṛtaṃ te sarvapīḍanam | avadhiṃ tasya saṃprāptaṃ buddhihīne na budhyase chādayangaganaṃ kāṣṭhā visasarja vināyakam | nirāsyaiṃkena bāṇena khamadhye tānvināyakaḥ siṃhanādairbṛṃhitaiśca daityaśabdairanekaśaḥ | trailokyaṃ kampitamabhūddevāḥ sarve visismire vāmajānuṃ puraḥ sthāpya jyāmākṛṣya sasarja tau| tayoḥ śabdena sahasā cakampe bhuvanatrayam daityānnihatya śataśo māṃsarāśiṃ mahattaram | cakārābhicaraṃ daityo vahniṃ sthāpya yathāvidhi idānīṃ sarvasainyāni nāśayiṣye tavāgrataḥ | evaṃ bruvati daityendre kāśirājo'śṛṇodvacaḥ andhakāraṃ yathā sūryasāratherudayānmune | tataste pakṣiṇaḥ sarve babhakṣurdaityasainikān bāṇaṃ niṣkāśya sudṛḍhaṃ vajrāstreṇābhimantrya ca | ākrandanena mahatā daityasainye mumoca tam vināyakasya sainyeṣu mahākolāhalo hyabhūt | tasminnipatite bāṇe puruṣo ghoradarśanaḥ tathā tathāpyayaṃ bālo darśayatyeva pauruṣam | kadāyaṃ nidhanaṃ yāyātkadā svapsye gataśramaḥ daityena vidhṛtāḥ vegāccaraṇeṣu pṛthakpṛthak | yāvadāsphālayetpṛthvyāṃ niḥsṛtāstāvadeva tāḥ mastake pṛṣṭhabhāge ca hṛdaye bāhumaṇḍale | tato śastravighātena jāto vahnirvasundharām devānāṃ jananī caiva saṃprāptā duṣṭasaṃgatim | kāśirājo'pi taṃ dṛṣṭvā śocantaṃ gaṇanāyakam daityau'pi purato'paśyadyuddhānte taṃ vināyakam | āraktanayanaṃ bhrājanmukuṭaṃ kuṇḍalojvalam kṛtvā padmāsanaṃ cāru gaṇeśaḥ svaprabhāvataḥ | uvāca cainaṃ daityendraṃ varaṃ smara nijaṃ śubham evaṃ dṛṣṭvā gatiṃ tasya sainikāśca diśo daśa | yātāśca katicinnāśaṃ prāptāstaddehapātataḥ daityabhāra bharākrāṃtā tasmāttvaṃ dharaṇīdharaḥ | ityuktvā te gatāḥ svasvapattanāni tadājñayā tāmbūlāni ca keṣāṃcitpuraskṛtya vināyakam | viveśa svagṛhaṃ ramyaṃ harṣanirbharamānasaḥ

(He held him) covering his face, ashamed, greatly distressed, not speaking, trembling like a tree caught by the wind. Because of the smoothness of that orifice I slipped and fell to the ground; in the great darkness I was not recognized, and fleeing I came home. Then the two, seated on a seat of five corpses, offered the oblation, cutting again and again the flesh of their own knees, out of devotion. Again the daitya came, destroying the army at once; and the retainers of the army of the Siddhis fled, greatly grieved. While all his own army was being slain, the Siddhis then took to flight and all went to Vināyaka. And then, with his own roaring making the sky and the quarters roar, shaking the minds of all the worlds and the mountains too: "Through pride in Sthāṇu's boon all this oppressing was done by you; his limit has come, and you, witless one, do not understand it." Covering the sky and the quarters he hurled (them) at Vināyaka; with a single arrow Vināyaka drove them off in mid-air. By lion-roars and trumpetings and the daityas' many shouts the three worlds were made to shake; all the gods were amazed. Setting his left knee forward and drawing the bowstring he shot those two; at their sound the triple world suddenly trembled. Having slain daityas by the hundreds and made a very great heap of flesh, the daitya performed a hostile rite, establishing the fire according to rule. "Now I shall destroy all your armies before your eyes" — while the lord of daityas was speaking thus, the king of Kāśī heard the words. As darkness (is dispelled) by the rising of the sun, the charioteer, O sage — then all those birds devoured the daitya soldiers. Drawing out a very firm arrow and charging it with the vajra-weapon, with a great cry he loosed it into the daitya army. In Vināyaka's armies there arose a great uproar. When that arrow fell, a man of terrible appearance (appeared). "Even so, this boy keeps displaying manliness; when will he meet his death, when shall I sleep with my weariness gone?" Held fast by the daitya swiftly by their feet, one by one, just as he was about to dash them on the earth they slipped away. On the head and on the back and on the heart and on the circle of the arms — then from the striking of the weapons fire arose upon the earth. And the mother of the gods came into evil company. The king of Kāśī too, seeing the lord of the hosts grieving — and the two daityas also saw before them, at the end of the battle, that Vināyaka, with reddened eyes, shining crown, radiant with earrings. Having by his own power taken a beautiful lotus-posture, Gaṇeśa said to that lord of daityas: "Remember your own auspicious boon." Seeing his state thus, the soldiers (fled to) the ten directions, and some met destruction from the falling of his body. "Oppressed by the load of the daityas' burden — therefore you are the bearer of the earth." Having said this they went, by his command, each to his own city; and having presented betel to some and honoured Vināyaka, he entered his lovely house, his mind full of joy.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 66.3

पितोवाच । किमर्थं वदसे नैव स्वामवस्थां तु मूकवत् । ईप्सितं साधयिष्यामि यत्नात्त्रैलोक्यदुर्लभम् ययौ वेगेन महता देवान्तकसमीपतः । प्रहस्य तमुवाचाथ दैत्यो देवान्तकस्तदा । दैत्य उवाच । कथं यातः शुष्कतालुर्नवनीतादनक्षमः । युद्धाय बाल न स्थेयं गच्छ मातुः स्तनं पिब एकः सैन्ये निपतितोऽपरो देवसमीपतः । ततस्ताला मृदंगाश्च गन्धर्वांप्सरसस्तथा इत्येवं चिन्तयाविष्टो धनुः सज्यमथाकरोत् । अभिमन्त्र्य शरं घोरं विससर्ज विनायके स दैत्यो रदनं चास्य धृत्वा हस्तद्वयेन ह । दोलयामास देहं स्वमन्तरिक्षे मुहुर्मुहुः

pitovāca | kimarthaṃ vadase naiva svāmavasthāṃ tu mūkavat | īpsitaṃ sādhayiṣyāmi yatnāttrailokyadurlabham yayau vegena mahatā devāntakasamīpataḥ | prahasya tamuvācātha daityo devāntakastadā | daitya uvāca | kathaṃ yātaḥ śuṣkatālurnavanītādanakṣamaḥ | yuddhāya bāla na stheyaṃ gaccha mātuḥ stanaṃ piba ekaḥ sainye nipatito'paro devasamīpataḥ | tatastālā mṛdaṃgāśca gandharvāṃpsarasastathā ityevaṃ cintayāviṣṭo dhanuḥ sajyamathākarot | abhimantrya śaraṃ ghoraṃ visasarja vināyake sa daityo radanaṃ cāsya dhṛtvā hastadvayena ha | dolayāmāsa dehaṃ svamantarikṣe muhurmuhuḥ

The father said: Why do you not speak of your own condition, like a mute? I shall accomplish by effort what you desire, hard to obtain in the three worlds. He went with great speed into Devāntaka's presence; then the daitya Devāntaka laughed and said to him. The daitya said: How have you come, dry-palated, unable even to chew butter? Boy, you should not stand up for battle; go, suck your mother's breast. One (arrow) fell upon the army, the other near the god; then cymbals and drums, and gandharvas and apsarases. Possessed by such a thought, he then strung his bow, and having charged a dreadful arrow with mantras he loosed it at Vināyaka. That daitya, seizing his tusk with both hands, swung his own body again and again in the sky.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 66.4

क उवाच । पीत्वा वागमृतं तस्य सावधानमनाः सुतः । उवाच पितरं मातुर्निकटे निर्विशंकया अदित्यां कश्यपाज्जातः कथं मूढ त्वमागतः । यतो देवान्तकेनाद्य योद्धुमिच्छसि बालक गाननृत्यानि चित्राणि पुरोऽपश्यद्विनायकः । पतितानि च शस्त्राणि न बुबोध करात्तदा स सायको बाणवर्षमनन्तं कृतवान्विभौ। शक्तिं च निर्ममे घोरां त्रैलोक्यग्राससाहसाम् यावत्पपात भूपृष्टे भंक्त्वा दन्तं सुरान्तकः । तावद्दधार तं देवः स्वदन्तं लाघवाद्विभुः ।

ka uvāca | pītvā vāgamṛtaṃ tasya sāvadhānamanāḥ sutaḥ | uvāca pitaraṃ māturnikaṭe nirviśaṃkayā adityāṃ kaśyapājjātaḥ kathaṃ mūḍha tvamāgataḥ | yato devāntakenādya yoddhumicchasi bālaka gānanṛtyāni citrāṇi puro'paśyadvināyakaḥ | patitāni ca śastrāṇi na bubodha karāttadā sa sāyako bāṇavarṣamanantaṃ kṛtavānvibhau| śaktiṃ ca nirmame ghorāṃ trailokyagrāsasāhasām yāvatpapāta bhūpṛṣṭe bhaṃktvā dantaṃ surāntakaḥ | tāvaddadhāra taṃ devaḥ svadantaṃ lāghavādvibhuḥ |

Ka said: Having drunk the nectar of his words, the son, with attentive mind, spoke to his father fearlessly beside his mother. "Born of Aditi from Kaśyapa, how have you come, fool? — since today, boy, you wish to fight with Devāntaka." Vināyaka saw wondrous songs and dances before him, and did not then notice the weapons fallen from his hand. That archer made an endless rain of arrows upon the lord, and fashioned a dreadful spear bold enough to swallow the three worlds. Just as the slayer of gods fell to the earth's surface, having broken the tusk, the lord god deftly caught his own tusk.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 66.5

पुत्र उवाच । भवदाज्ञां गृहीत्वैव योद्धुं यातो विनायकम् । शरैराशीविषाकारैरसङ्ख्यैर्नाशिताः सुराः कालो बिभेति मां दृष्ट्वा वृथा त्वं मर्तुमिच्छसि । अतिकोमलगात्रत्वाद्ग्रासमात्रं भविष्यसि मोहितो मञ्जुलरवैः कर्तव्यं नाभ्यपद्यत । सैनिकाः सुषुपुः सर्वे निद्रास्त्रेण विमोहिताः ददर्श विघ्नराजस्ता तदंके दैत्यपुंगवम् । वर्षन्तं शरजालानि तीक्ष्णानि सुबहून्यपि अहनत्तेन दन्तेन मस्तके तं सुरान्तकम् । जगर्ज च महारावैर्गर्जयन्विदिशो दिशः

putra uvāca | bhavadājñāṃ gṛhītvaiva yoddhuṃ yāto vināyakam | śarairāśīviṣākārairasaṅkhyairnāśitāḥ surāḥ kālo bibheti māṃ dṛṣṭvā vṛthā tvaṃ martumicchasi | atikomalagātratvādgrāsamātraṃ bhaviṣyasi mohito mañjularavaiḥ kartavyaṃ nābhyapadyata | sainikāḥ suṣupuḥ sarve nidrāstreṇa vimohitāḥ dadarśa vighnarājastā tadaṃke daityapuṃgavam | varṣantaṃ śarajālāni tīkṣṇāni subahūnyapi ahanattena dantena mastake taṃ surāntakam | jagarja ca mahārāvairgarjayanvidiśo diśaḥ

The son said: Having taken your command I went to fight Vināyaka; countless gods were destroyed by arrows shaped like venomous snakes. "Time itself trembles at the sight of me; in vain do you wish to die; since your limbs are so tender, you will be a mere mouthful." Bewildered by the sweet sounds, he did not set about what was to be done; all the soldiers slept, deluded by the sleep-weapon. The lord of obstacles saw them, and on his lap the bull among daityas, raining down nets of arrows, sharp and very many. With that tusk he struck the slayer of gods on the head, and roared with great roars, making the quarters and intermediate quarters resound.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 66.6

प्रवर्तिता असृङ्नद्यो भग्ना सेना तु काश्यपी । तत एका महाकृत्या दरीवक्त्रा नभःस्पृशी क उवाच । इति दैत्यवचः श्रुत्वा क्रोधसंरक्तलोचनः । विनायकः प्रहस्याह वमन्वक्त्राद्धुताशनम् निशामुखे यथा बाला अव्यवस्थं हि शेरते । स्त्रियोऽपि चाथ ताः सर्वाः सुषुपुर्विगतत्रपाः ततोऽष्टसिद्धयः शोघ्रमुड्डीय बलवत्तरम् । दध्रुस्तां सहसा शक्तिमानिन्युस्तां विनायकम् चालयन्पृथिवीं सर्वां पातालान्यखिलानि च । द्विजाघातेन शतधाऽकारि देहोऽस्य तत्क्षणात्

pravartitā asṛṅnadyo bhagnā senā tu kāśyapī | tata ekā mahākṛtyā darīvaktrā nabhaḥspṛśī ka uvāca | iti daityavacaḥ śrutvā krodhasaṃraktalocanaḥ | vināyakaḥ prahasyāha vamanvaktrāddhutāśanam niśāmukhe yathā bālā avyavasthaṃ hi śerate | striyo'pi cātha tāḥ sarvāḥ suṣupurvigatatrapāḥ tato'ṣṭasiddhayaḥ śoghramuḍḍīya balavattaram | dadhrustāṃ sahasā śaktimāninyustāṃ vināyakam cālayanpṛthivīṃ sarvāṃ pātālānyakhilāni ca | dvijāghātena śatadhā'kāri deho'sya tatkṣaṇāt

Rivers of blood were set flowing, and the Kāśyapa army was broken. Then one great Kṛtyā, with a mouth like a cavern, touching the sky. Ka said: hearing the daitya's words thus, Vināyaka, his eyes red with rage, laughed and spoke, vomiting fire from his mouth: "As children lie down in disorder at nightfall" — and all those women too slept, their modesty gone. Then the eight Siddhis, flying up swiftly and very forcefully, seized that spear at once and brought it to Vināyaka. Shaking the whole earth and all the netherworlds — by the blow of the tusk his body was made hundredfold that very instant.

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GnP 2 66.7

करालकेशी पाताल चरणा पर्वतस्तना। आगता देवसेनाया रक्षणार्थं ममान्तिकम् देव उवाच । क्षीबोऽसि मद्यपानेन प्रायो वा सन्निपातवान् । असंबद्धं युक्तिहीनं वल्गसे मूढभावतः देवान्तकोऽपश्यदेवं जहर्ष च जगर्ज च । ततः संस्थापयामास गुल्मानि परितो बहु आनीयमाना सा हस्तान्निःसृत्याथ पलायिता । रोषात्ताभिर्दैत्यपतिरानायि स कचग्रहात् असृग्वृष्टिः पपाताशु गगनान्मेघवृष्टिवत् । उत्पातं मेनिरे लोकाः सर्वे भूतलवासिनः

karālakeśī pātāla caraṇā parvatastanā| āgatā devasenāyā rakṣaṇārthaṃ mamāntikam deva uvāca | kṣībo'si madyapānena prāyo vā sannipātavān | asaṃbaddhaṃ yuktihīnaṃ valgase mūḍhabhāvataḥ devāntako'paśyadevaṃ jaharṣa ca jagarja ca | tataḥ saṃsthāpayāmāsa gulmāni parito bahu ānīyamānā sā hastānniḥsṛtyātha palāyitā | roṣāttābhirdaityapatirānāyi sa kacagrahāt asṛgvṛṣṭiḥ papātāśu gaganānmeghavṛṣṭivat | utpātaṃ menire lokāḥ sarve bhūtalavāsinaḥ

"With terrible hair, her feet in the netherworld, her breasts like mountains, she has come to me to protect the army of the gods." The god said: "You are drunk with liquor, or else in delirium; you rave incoherently and senselessly out of folly." Devāntaka saw this, and rejoiced and roared; then he stationed many outposts all around. As she was being brought, she slipped from the hand and fled; in fury the lord of daityas was brought by them by seizing his hair. A rain of blood fell swiftly from the sky like a downpour from clouds; all the people dwelling on earth took it for a portent.

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GnP 2 66.8

खड्गेन निहता सा तु विव्यथे नैव किंचन । निक्षिप्ता सर्वसेना मे तया तात दरीभगे वह्निर्दहति सर्वं हि लघुर्वायुसमीरितः। त्वद्वाक्यनुन्नस्त्वां हन्यां दैत्याधम न बुध्यसे देवसैन्यस्य महतो बली वीरयुतानि च । चक्रे कुण्डं त्रिकोणं च भूमिसाधनपूर्वकम् अणिमानं ततो दैत्यो जघान मुष्टिना दृढम्। मुष्टिघातं समासाद्य मूर्छिता निपपात ह दैत्यदेहगतं ज्योतिस्तं विवेश विनायकम् । पश्यतां सर्वदेवानां प्रधनालोकितं पुनः

khaḍgena nihatā sā tu vivyathe naiva kiṃcana | nikṣiptā sarvasenā me tayā tāta darībhage vahnirdahati sarvaṃ hi laghurvāyusamīritaḥ| tvadvākyanunnastvāṃ hanyāṃ daityādhama na budhyase devasainyasya mahato balī vīrayutāni ca | cakre kuṇḍaṃ trikoṇaṃ ca bhūmisādhanapūrvakam aṇimānaṃ tato daityo jaghāna muṣṭinā dṛḍham| muṣṭighātaṃ samāsādya mūrchitā nipapāta ha daityadehagataṃ jyotistaṃ viveśa vināyakam | paśyatāṃ sarvadevānāṃ pradhanālokitaṃ punaḥ

Struck with the sword, she suffered nothing at all. "My whole army was cast by her, father, into the cleft of her womb. Fire burns everything indeed when, being light, it is driven by the wind. Urged on by your words I would kill you, basest of daityas — you do not understand." The strong one (dealt with) the great army of the gods and its thousands of heroes; and the daitya made a triangular fire-pit, preceded by preparation of the ground. Then the daitya struck Aṇimā hard with his fist; receiving the fist-blow she fell down in a swoon. The light that was in the daitya's body entered Vināyaka, while all the gods looked on — seen again in the battle.

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GnP 2 66.9

भक्षयन्त्येव सर्वाणि शस्त्राणि शरसंचयान् । सा मां भगे विनिक्षिप्य याता देवं विनायकम् । इदानीं त्यज बुद्धिं तां नान्तको विद्यते मम । त्वदर्थमवतीर्णोऽहं ब्रह्मभूतः सनातनः असृक्कुम्भान्समानीय शतसंख्यान्प्रयत्नतः । स्नात्वा पद्मासनं चक्रे नानाप्रेतेषु सादरम् लघिमा गरिमा चाथ वशिमा तं महासुरम् । यावल्लत्ताप्रहारैस्तु निजघ्नुस्तावदेव हि देहस्तु निपपातास्य धरापृष्टे त्रियोजनम् । चूर्णयन्वृक्षसंघातान्पर्वतान्पादपैर्युतान्

bhakṣayantyeva sarvāṇi śastrāṇi śarasaṃcayān | sā māṃ bhage vinikṣipya yātā devaṃ vināyakam | idānīṃ tyaja buddhiṃ tāṃ nāntako vidyate mama | tvadarthamavatīrṇo'haṃ brahmabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ asṛkkumbhānsamānīya śatasaṃkhyānprayatnataḥ | snātvā padmāsanaṃ cakre nānāpreteṣu sādaram laghimā garimā cātha vaśimā taṃ mahāsuram | yāvallattāprahāraistu nijaghnustāvadeva hi dehastu nipapātāsya dharāpṛṣṭe triyojanam | cūrṇayanvṛkṣasaṃghātānparvatānpādapairyutān

"She devours all weapons and heaps of arrows; having flung me into her womb she has gone to the god Vināyaka. Now give up that notion: there is no ender for me; I have descended for your sake, I who am Brahman, eternal." Having carefully brought a hundred jars of blood, and having bathed, he reverently made a lotus-seat upon various corpses. Laghimā and Garimā and Vaśimā — as they struck that great asura with kicks, just then his body fell upon the earth's surface for three yojanas, crushing masses of trees and mountains together with their trees.

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GnP 2 66.11

स्नात्वा नदीजले तात व्रीडितोऽधोमुखस्ततः । क उवाच । एवं पुत्रवचः श्रुत्वा रौद्रकेतुर्जगाद तम् त्रैलोक्यपीडया पापं यज्जातं दुर्मते । अलं ते कत्थनेनाद्य दर्शयस्व स्वपौरुषम् दिगम्बरो जहावाथ मांसानि मन्त्रपूर्वकम् । सहस्रे तु हुते पश्चाद्बलि पूर्णाहुतिं च यः प्राकाम्यं चैव भूतिश्च जघ्नतुस्तं ततो बलात् । पपात भूतले दैत्यो वमन्नग्निं मुखात्ततः मुमुचुः पुष्पवर्षं ते देवाः स्वस्थानमागताः । देवदुन्दुभयो नेदुर्नृपदुन्दुभिनिस्वनैः

snātvā nadījale tāta vrīḍito'dhomukhastataḥ | ka uvāca | evaṃ putravacaḥ śrutvā raudraketurjagāda tam trailokyapīḍayā pāpaṃ yajjātaṃ durmate | alaṃ te katthanenādya darśayasva svapauruṣam digambaro jahāvātha māṃsāni mantrapūrvakam | sahasre tu hute paścādbali pūrṇāhutiṃ ca yaḥ prākāmyaṃ caiva bhūtiśca jaghnatustaṃ tato balāt | papāta bhūtale daityo vamannagniṃ mukhāttataḥ mumucuḥ puṣpavarṣaṃ te devāḥ svasthānamāgatāḥ | devadundubhayo nedurnṛpadundubhinisvanaiḥ

"Having bathed in the river water, father, ashamed, with face cast down." Ka said: hearing his son's words thus, Raudraketu said to him: "The sin that has arisen from your tormenting the three worlds, evil-minded one — enough of your boasting today, show your own manliness!" Then, naked, he offered the flesh with mantras; and when a thousand had been offered, then the offering and the full oblation, and he who... And Prākāmya and Bhūti then struck him with force; the daitya fell to the ground, vomiting fire from his mouth. They released a rain of flowers; those gods came to their own places; the drums of the gods sounded along with the notes of royal drums.

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GnP 2 66.12

उपायं ते वदाम्येकं न चिन्तां कर्तुमर्हसि । ततो मुहूर्तमालोक्य ददौ तस्मै महामनुम् शक्तिपायोर्विनिर्गत्य कोत्वा वत्क्रं प्रदर्शयेत् । सहस्व प्रहरस्वाद्य यदि युद्धं त्वमिच्छसि चकार कुण्डमध्ये सोऽपश्यच्छक्तिं क्षुधातुराम् । नरमांसानि तस्यै स ददौ पातुं च तान्घटान् क्षणाल्लभ्य तत संज्ञामारुरोह हयं दृढम् । शस्त्रपाणिर्वायुवेगो निजघान विनायकम् दिशश्च विमला आसन्ववुर्वाताः सुखावहा । तेजांसि वह्नेर्लोकानां प्रसन्नानि तदाऽभवन्

upāyaṃ te vadāmyekaṃ na cintāṃ kartumarhasi | tato muhūrtamālokya dadau tasmai mahāmanum śaktipāyorvinirgatya kotvā vatkraṃ pradarśayet | sahasva praharasvādya yadi yuddhaṃ tvamicchasi cakāra kuṇḍamadhye so'paśyacchaktiṃ kṣudhāturām | naramāṃsāni tasyai sa dadau pātuṃ ca tānghaṭān kṣaṇāllabhya tata saṃjñāmāruroha hayaṃ dṛḍham | śastrapāṇirvāyuvego nijaghāna vināyakam diśaśca vimalā āsanvavurvātāḥ sukhāvahā | tejāṃsi vahnerlokānāṃ prasannāni tadā'bhavan

"I shall tell you one expedient; you need not worry." Then, having considered for a moment, he gave him the great mantra. (corrupt line: having come forth from the Śakti's ... he would show ...) "Bear it, strike now, if you want a fight!" He made (it) in the middle of the fire-pit; he saw the Śakti afflicted with hunger; he gave her human flesh and those jars to drink. Then, regaining consciousness in a moment, he mounted a strong horse; weapon in hand, swift as the wind, he struck Vināyaka. The quarters became clear, pleasant breezes blew, and the fires' splendours in the worlds then became bright.

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GnP 2 66.13

अघोरस्य सबीजं तमुवाच जनकः पुनः । शिवं ध्यात्वा च संपूज्य कुर्वनुष्ठानमुत्तमम् श्वोभाविनं मृत्युमद्य मूढभावात्त्वमिच्छसि । क उवाच । एवमाभाष्य तं दैत्यं सज्यं चक्रे धनुः प्रभुः अतृप्तां तां परिज्ञाय प्रेतानन्यानथार्पयत् । ततः सा बहिरायाता व्योमकेशी भयंकरा दृढासिघाताद्देवोऽथ किंचिन्मूर्च्छामवाप्तवान् । निमेषात्सुविधानोऽ भूदधावद्दैत्यनायकम् प्रतिकूलवहा नद्य आसन्सन्मार्गगास्तथा । ततः शक्रादयो देवा मुनयस्तं पुपूजिरे

aghorasya sabījaṃ tamuvāca janakaḥ punaḥ | śivaṃ dhyātvā ca saṃpūjya kurvanuṣṭhānamuttamam śvobhāvinaṃ mṛtyumadya mūḍhabhāvāttvamicchasi | ka uvāca | evamābhāṣya taṃ daityaṃ sajyaṃ cakre dhanuḥ prabhuḥ atṛptāṃ tāṃ parijñāya pretānanyānathārpayat | tataḥ sā bahirāyātā vyomakeśī bhayaṃkarā dṛḍhāsighātāddevo'tha kiṃcinmūrcchāmavāptavān | nimeṣātsuvidhāno' bhūdadhāvaddaityanāyakam pratikūlavahā nadya āsansanmārgagāstathā | tataḥ śakrādayo devā munayastaṃ pupūjire

His father again told him the mantra of Aghora with its seed-syllable: "Meditating on Śiva and worshipping him, perform the excellent observance." "Out of folly you now desire the death that belongs to tomorrow." Ka said: having spoken thus to that daitya, the lord strung his bow. Recognizing that she was unsatisfied, he then offered her other corpses; then she came forth, her hair (spread) in the sky, terrifying. From the hard sword-stroke the god fell into a slight swoon; in the twinkling of an eye he was well ordered again and ran at the daitya-chief. The rivers flowed backwards, and then went by their proper courses; then Indra and the other gods and the sages worshipped him.

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GnP 2 66.14

होमं च तर्पणं विप्रभोजनं च दशांशतः । शिवे प्रसन्ने कुण्डाद्धि तुरंगो निःसरिष्यति नरान्तकगतिं तस्य दातुमिच्छन्विनायकः । टणत्कारेण धनुषश्चकम्पे भुवनत्रयम् विशालगर्तनेत्राऽतिकरालवदनाऽरुणा । उवाच परमप्रीता नादयन्ती दिशो दश हिरण्यकशिपुं विष्णुर्यथा वृत्रं शचीपतिः । शरं च कमलं पाशमंकुशं च चतुःकरैः तुष्टुवुः परया भक्त्या देवदेवं विनायकम् । विमोचिता वयं बन्धाद्देवान्तककृताद्विभो

homaṃ ca tarpaṇaṃ viprabhojanaṃ ca daśāṃśataḥ | śive prasanne kuṇḍāddhi turaṃgo niḥsariṣyati narāntakagatiṃ tasya dātumicchanvināyakaḥ | ṭaṇatkāreṇa dhanuṣaścakampe bhuvanatrayam viśālagartanetrā'tikarālavadanā'ruṇā | uvāca paramaprītā nādayantī diśo daśa hiraṇyakaśipuṃ viṣṇuryathā vṛtraṃ śacīpatiḥ | śaraṃ ca kamalaṃ pāśamaṃkuśaṃ ca catuḥkaraiḥ tuṣṭuvuḥ parayā bhaktyā devadevaṃ vināyakam | vimocitā vayaṃ bandhāddevāntakakṛtādvibho

"Oblation and libation and the feeding of brahmins, each to a tenth part; when Śiva is pleased, a horse will come forth from the fire-pit." Vināyaka, wishing to give him the fate of Narāntaka — at the twang of his bow the three worlds shook. With eyes like broad pits, with a most fearsome red face, she spoke, exceedingly pleased, making the ten quarters resound. As Viṣṇu (dealt with) Hiraṇyakaśipu, as the lord of Śacī with Vṛtra — and arrow and lotus and noose and goad in his four hands. They praised with supreme devotion Vināyaka, god of gods: "We have been released, O lord, from the bondage made by Devāntaka."

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GnP 2 66.15

तमारुह्य व्रज रणं जयं प्राप्स्यसि निश्चितम् ! क उवाच : एवं पितुर्वचः श्रुत्वा प्राह पुत्रो मुदा च तम् आकर्णं ज्यामथाकृष्य बाणं दैत्ये ससर्ज ह । दैत्येन शतधा भिन्नः स बाणः पतितो भुवि तृप्तास्मि रक्तमांसैस्ते न भयं विद्यते क्वचित् । तामुवाचाथ दैत्योऽपि पुपूजे भक्तिभावतः बिभ्राणः शुशुभे वीरश्रिया परमया ज्वलन् । गर्जित्वा घनवद्देवो जघान दैत्यपुंगवम् उपेन्द्र इव देवेन्द्र कार्यं यस्मात्कृतं त्वया। उपेन्द्र इति नाम्ना त्वं ख्याति लोके गमिष्यसि

tamāruhya vraja raṇaṃ jayaṃ prāpsyasi niścitam ! ka uvāca : evaṃ piturvacaḥ śrutvā prāha putro mudā ca tam ākarṇaṃ jyāmathākṛṣya bāṇaṃ daitye sasarja ha | daityena śatadhā bhinnaḥ sa bāṇaḥ patito bhuvi tṛptāsmi raktamāṃsaiste na bhayaṃ vidyate kvacit | tāmuvācātha daityo'pi pupūje bhaktibhāvataḥ bibhrāṇaḥ śuśubhe vīraśriyā paramayā jvalan | garjitvā ghanavaddevo jaghāna daityapuṃgavam upendra iva devendra kāryaṃ yasmātkṛtaṃ tvayā| upendra iti nāmnā tvaṃ khyāti loke gamiṣyasi

"Mount it and go to battle; you will surely obtain victory." Ka said: hearing his father's words thus, the son spoke to him with joy. Then, drawing the string to his ear, he loosed the arrow at the daitya; split a hundredfold by the daitya, that arrow fell to the ground. "I am satisfied with your blood and flesh; there is no danger anywhere." Then the daitya spoke to her and worshipped her out of devotion. Bearing (his weapons) he shone, blazing with supreme heroic splendour; roaring like a thundercloud, the god struck the bull among daityas. "Since, O Indra of the gods, the deed was done by you like Upendra, you will attain fame in the world under the name Upendra."

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GnP 2 66.16

उपदेशः कृतः सम्यग्विधिमस्य ब्रवीतु मे । ततो लोकं निवार्यैव जग्मतुर्ग्रहमध्यतः ततो दैत्यो धनुः सज्यं कृत्वा चिक्षेप सायकान् । धनुषस्तस्य शद्वेन विनेदुः पर्वता दिशः उपचारैः षोडशभिः प्रणिपातपुरःसरम् । ततो दिव्याम्बरधरो नानालंकारभूषितः चतुर्भिरायुधैर्वेगान्न चचाल तथापि सः । आश्चर्यं परमं प्राप दृष्टवा शस्त्रं वृथार्थताम् वयं स्वस्वाधिकारेषु निरातंका वसामहे । स्वाहास्वधावषट्कारा भविष्यन्ति गृहे गृहे

upadeśaḥ kṛtaḥ samyagvidhimasya bravītu me | tato lokaṃ nivāryaiva jagmaturgrahamadhyataḥ tato daityo dhanuḥ sajyaṃ kṛtvā cikṣepa sāyakān | dhanuṣastasya śadvena vineduḥ parvatā diśaḥ upacāraiḥ ṣoḍaśabhiḥ praṇipātapuraḥsaram | tato divyāmbaradharo nānālaṃkārabhūṣitaḥ caturbhirāyudhairvegānna cacāla tathāpi saḥ | āścaryaṃ paramaṃ prāpa dṛṣṭavā śastraṃ vṛthārthatām vayaṃ svasvādhikāreṣu nirātaṃkā vasāmahe | svāhāsvadhāvaṣaṭkārā bhaviṣyanti gṛhe gṛhe

"The instruction has been rightly given; let him tell me the procedure of it." Then, keeping the people away, the two went into the midst of the (house). Then the daitya, having strung his bow, shot arrows; at the sound of his bow the mountains and the quarters resounded. With the sixteen services, preceded by prostration; then, wearing divine garments, adorned with various ornaments; yet he did not stir at the rush of the four weapons; he was utterly astonished, seeing the uselessness of his weapon. "We shall dwell fearless, each in his own domain; the calls svāhā, svadhā and vaṣaṭ will be heard in house after house."

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GnP 2 66.17

उभावारक्तवसनौ रक्तपुष्पाणि सन्नीय शिवं पुपूजतुस्तदा हुंकारेण च तान्बाणान्पातयामास विघ्नराट् । पुनर्विनायको बाणान्बहूंश्चिक्षेप दैत्यपे देव्या अंकं समासाद्य जगर्ज बलवत्तरम् । सोड्डीय तेन सहिता नभस्येव स्थिताऽभवत् वज्रात्सारतरं मेने दैत्यदेहं विनायकः । ततो देवो राक्षसस्य धूम्राक्ष्यस्य महायुधम् एवमुक्त्वा नमस्कृत्य देवं ते च प्रदक्षिणम् । अनुज्ञाता ययुः सर्वं स्वं स्वं स्थानं मुदान्विताः

ubhāvāraktavasanau raktapuṣpāṇi sannīya śivaṃ pupūjatustadā huṃkāreṇa ca tānbāṇānpātayāmāsa vighnarāṭ | punarvināyako bāṇānbahūṃścikṣepa daityape devyā aṃkaṃ samāsādya jagarja balavattaram | soḍḍīya tena sahitā nabhasyeva sthitā'bhavat vajrātsārataraṃ mene daityadehaṃ vināyakaḥ | tato devo rākṣasasya dhūmrākṣyasya mahāyudham evamuktvā namaskṛtya devaṃ te ca pradakṣiṇam | anujñātā yayuḥ sarvaṃ svaṃ svaṃ sthānaṃ mudānvitāḥ

The two, clad in red garments, having gathered red flowers, then worshipped Śiva. And with a huṃ-sound the king of obstacles brought those arrows down; again Vināyaka shot many arrows at the daitya-lord. Reaching the goddess's lap he roared very mightily; she, flying up together with him, stood as it were in the sky. Vināyaka reckoned the daitya's body harder than adamant; then the god (took) the great weapon of the rākṣasa Dhūmrākṣa. Having spoken thus, having bowed to the god and circumambulated him, permitted by him they all went joyfully each to his own place.

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GnP 2 66.18

अनुष्ठानं बहुदिनं चक्रतुः परमादरात् । एकेन मुकुटं तस्य शरेण कर्णकुण्डले । भूमौ न्यपातयद्देवो बाहू द्वाभ्यां बिभेद च नानाशस्त्रधरा सोऽपि धनुर्बाणधरो बभौ । तामुवाच रौद्रकेतुपुत्रः परमहर्षितः वज्रं संचूर्णयन्सूर्यमण्डलादागतं तु यत् । तदादायाहनत्तेन दैत्यं तच्छतधाऽभवत् मुनयश्च तदा देवैर्हृषीकेशेति नाम च । कृत्वा नत्वा ययुः स्वं स्वमाश्रमं हर्षनिर्भराः

anuṣṭhānaṃ bahudinaṃ cakratuḥ paramādarāt | ekena mukuṭaṃ tasya śareṇa karṇakuṇḍale | bhūmau nyapātayaddevo bāhū dvābhyāṃ bibheda ca nānāśastradharā so'pi dhanurbāṇadharo babhau | tāmuvāca raudraketuputraḥ paramaharṣitaḥ vajraṃ saṃcūrṇayansūryamaṇḍalādāgataṃ tu yat | tadādāyāhanattena daityaṃ tacchatadhā'bhavat munayaśca tadā devairhṛṣīkeśeti nāma ca | kṛtvā natvā yayuḥ svaṃ svamāśramaṃ harṣanirbharāḥ

For many days the two performed the rite with the greatest reverence. With one arrow (he struck) his crown, (with another) his ear-rings; the god made (them) fall to the ground, and with two (arrows) he split his arms. He too, bearing many weapons, shone forth holding bow and arrow. Greatly delighted, the son of Raudraketu spoke to her. And that thunderbolt which had come from the orb of the sun, crushing (all) — taking it up, he struck the demon with it, and (the demon) became a hundred pieces. And then the sages, together with the gods, made the name "Hṛṣīkeśa," and having bowed, they went each to his own hermitage, filled with joy.

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GnP 2 66.19

षट्कोणं लक्षणैर्युक्तं मेखलायोनिसंयुतम् । तत्राग्निं विधिवत्स्थाप्य पात्राणि च यथाविधि ललाटं सायकेनैव ततो दैत्यो रुषान्वितः । चचर्व दन्तान्नेत्रे च विस्फार्यान्यांशरान्बहून् कश्यपस्यात्मजो बालश्चञ्चलो बहुलं पुरा । इदानीमत्र किं तेन कर्तव्यं कुचरेण मे न रोमापि चचालास्य तदप्याश्चर्यमुत्तमम् । ततो नानाशस्त्रघातैर्जघ्नतुस्तौ परस्परम् ततः सर्वे धराधीशाः संपूज्य च प्रणम्य च। ऊचुर्विनायकं देवमुद्धृता धरणी त्वया

ṣaṭkoṇaṃ lakṣaṇairyuktaṃ mekhalāyonisaṃyutam | tatrāgniṃ vidhivatsthāpya pātrāṇi ca yathāvidhi lalāṭaṃ sāyakenaiva tato daityo ruṣānvitaḥ | cacarva dantānnetre ca visphāryānyāṃśarānbahūn kaśyapasyātmajo bālaścañcalo bahulaṃ purā | idānīmatra kiṃ tena kartavyaṃ kucareṇa me na romāpi cacālāsya tadapyāścaryamuttamam | tato nānāśastraghātairjaghnatustau parasparam tataḥ sarve dharādhīśāḥ saṃpūjya ca praṇamya ca| ūcurvināyakaṃ devamuddhṛtā dharaṇī tvayā

(The fire-pit) six-cornered, furnished with the (proper) marks, provided with girdle and yoni: having installed the fire there according to rule, and the vessels as prescribed — then the demon, filled with rage, (struck) the forehead with an arrow; he gnashed his teeth and, with eyes wide open, (shot) many other arrows. "Kaśyapa's son is a boy, formerly much given to restlessness; what has he to do here now, this wanderer of mine?" Not even a hair of his stirred — that too was a supreme marvel. Then the two struck each other with blows of various weapons. Then all the lords of the earth, having worshipped and bowed, said to the god Vināyaka: "The earth has been raised up by you."

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GnP 2 66.21

असृग्घृतेन मांसेन तृप्तोऽभूत्पावकस्तदा। दशांशहोमे जाते तु पुपूजे वह्निदेवताम् स्वयं चक्रे मण्डपं स क्षणाद्बाणमयं विभुः । अन्धकारे घोरतरे युयुधाते परस्परम् ततो विनायकं राजा बोधयामास सादरम् । काशीराजोवाच । भूतभव्यभविष्यज्ञ कथं मायां न बुध्यसे ददाह न च तौ भीतौ युद्धमेवान्वपद्यतम् । निशीथे तमसा व्याप्ते विरामं न समीयतुः ततः पश्चात्पश्यति स्म काशिराजो विनायकम् । सिंहारूढं बालरूपं क्रीडन्तं बालकैः सह

asṛgghṛtena māṃsena tṛpto'bhūtpāvakastadā| daśāṃśahome jāte tu pupūje vahnidevatām svayaṃ cakre maṇḍapaṃ sa kṣaṇādbāṇamayaṃ vibhuḥ | andhakāre ghoratare yuyudhāte parasparam tato vināyakaṃ rājā bodhayāmāsa sādaram | kāśīrājovāca | bhūtabhavyabhaviṣyajña kathaṃ māyāṃ na budhyase dadāha na ca tau bhītau yuddhamevānvapadyatam | niśīthe tamasā vyāpte virāmaṃ na samīyatuḥ tataḥ paścātpaśyati sma kāśirājo vināyakam | siṃhārūḍhaṃ bālarūpaṃ krīḍantaṃ bālakaiḥ saha

Then the fire was satisfied with blood, ghee and flesh; when the tenth-part oblation was completed, he worshipped the deity of fire. The Lord himself in an instant made a pavilion made of arrows. In the most terrible darkness the two fought each other. Then the king respectfully roused Vināyaka. The king of Kāśī said: "O knower of past, present and future, how do you not recognize the illusion?" It burned, yet the two were not afraid; they engaged only in battle. When midnight was covered with darkness, they did not come to a halt. Then afterwards the king of Kāśī saw Vināyaka, mounted on a lion, in the form of a boy, playing together with boys.

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GnP 2 66.22

बलिदानं चकाराशु छित्त्वा पुत्रशिरस्तदा । तेन पूर्णाहुतिं चक्रे विससर्जाथ पावकम् शरवृष्ट्या बाणवृष्टिं निजघ्नतू रुषान्वितौ । शतशस्तौ निराकृत्य बाणवृष्टी उभावपि गान्धर्वी दैत्यरचितां कथं सक्तोऽसि तत्र वै । देवान्तकेनाभिचरान्निर्मितां राक्षसीमिव ततः कृत्रिमदीप्त्या तौ परस्परमयुध्यताम् । ततो मायां रौद्रकेतुश्चक्रे सुरविमोहिनीम् बालोऽपि तं नृपं दृष्ट्वा लिलिंग परमादरात् । उभावानन्दभरितौ मुंचतोऽश्रूणि नेत्रतः

balidānaṃ cakārāśu chittvā putraśirastadā | tena pūrṇāhutiṃ cakre visasarjātha pāvakam śaravṛṣṭyā bāṇavṛṣṭiṃ nijaghnatū ruṣānvitau | śataśastau nirākṛtya bāṇavṛṣṭī ubhāvapi gāndharvī daityaracitāṃ kathaṃ sakto'si tatra vai | devāntakenābhicarānnirmitāṃ rākṣasīmiva tataḥ kṛtrimadīptyā tau parasparamayudhyatām | tato māyāṃ raudraketuścakre suravimohinīm bālo'pi taṃ nṛpaṃ dṛṣṭvā liliṃga paramādarāt | ubhāvānandabharitau muṃcato'śrūṇi netrataḥ

Then, having cut off his son's head, he quickly made the offering; with it he made the full oblation and then dismissed the fire. Filled with rage, the two beat back each other's shower of arrows with a shower of arrows; both of them repelled the arrow-showers by hundreds. "How are you attached there to that Gandharva (illusion) fashioned by the demon, like a demoness created by Devāntaka through his sorcery?" Then by artificial light the two fought each other. Then Raudraketu produced an illusion that bewildered the gods. The boy too, seeing that king, embraced (him) with the greatest reverence; both, filled with bliss, shed tears from their eyes.

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GnP 2 66.23

ईश्वरस्य प्रसादेन पुत्रोऽस्य पूर्ववद्बभौ । ब्राह्मणान्भोजयामास तर्पणान्ते यथाविधि ततो दैत्यो महामंत्रं जप्त्वाऽष्टशतसंख्यया। मंत्रयामास तेनाशु वारणास्त्रेण सायकम् सा सैन्यं नाशयिष्यति ते सावधानमना भव । क उवाच । एवं नृपवचः श्रुत्वा सावधानमना विभुः अदितिं सुन्दरां कृत्वा दैत्यहस्ते न्यवेशयत् । पद्मनेत्रां पीनकुचां कुङ्कुमारक्तमालिकाम् तत ऊचे नृपो देवं महद्भाग्यं ममोदितम् । ब्रह्मादीनामगम्यं यत्परं ब्रह्म सनातनम्

īśvarasya prasādena putro'sya pūrvavadbabhau | brāhmaṇānbhojayāmāsa tarpaṇānte yathāvidhi tato daityo mahāmaṃtraṃ japtvā'ṣṭaśatasaṃkhyayā| maṃtrayāmāsa tenāśu vāraṇāstreṇa sāyakam sā sainyaṃ nāśayiṣyati te sāvadhānamanā bhava | ka uvāca | evaṃ nṛpavacaḥ śrutvā sāvadhānamanā vibhuḥ aditiṃ sundarāṃ kṛtvā daityahaste nyaveśayat | padmanetrāṃ pīnakucāṃ kuṅkumāraktamālikām tata ūce nṛpo devaṃ mahadbhāgyaṃ mamoditam | brahmādīnāmagamyaṃ yatparaṃ brahma sanātanam

By the grace of the Lord his son appeared as before. He fed the brahmins, according to rule, at the end of the libations. Then the demon, having muttered the great mantra one hundred and eight times, at once consecrated an arrow with that elephant-weapon (mantra). "It will destroy your army; be attentive of mind." Ka said: Hearing thus the king's words, the Lord, attentive of mind, made Aditi beautiful and placed her in the demon's hand — lotus-eyed, full-breasted, wearing a garland red with saffron. Then the king said to the god: "Great good fortune has arisen for me. That eternal supreme Brahman which is unattainable to Brahmā and the rest..."

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GnP 2 66.24

ततो रात्र्यां व्यतीतायामुदिते च दिवाकरे । ददर्श तुरगं कृष्णं स्निग्धांगं बलवत्तरम् तत्याजाथ प्रादुरासन्वारणाः कोटिशस्ततः । चतुर्दन्ता गिरिनिभा मेरुमंदरचूर्णिनः बुद्ध्वा तज्ज्ञानदृष्ट्यैव सर्वं मायामयं तदा । शरद्वयं विनिष्कृष्य मन्त्राभ्यां परिमन्त्र्य च मुक्तहारां सुवलयां दिव्यांशुकविराजिताम् । लावण्यलहरीं रुक्मविलसद्दिव्यकञ्चुकाम् तन्मे दृग्गोचरं नित्यं पूर्वपुण्यफलोदयात् । विश्वस्य कारणानां च कारणं तद्विवर्जितम्

tato rātryāṃ vyatītāyāmudite ca divākare | dadarśa turagaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ snigdhāṃgaṃ balavattaram tatyājātha prādurāsanvāraṇāḥ koṭiśastataḥ | caturdantā girinibhā merumaṃdaracūrṇinaḥ buddhvā tajjñānadṛṣṭyaiva sarvaṃ māyāmayaṃ tadā | śaradvayaṃ viniṣkṛṣya mantrābhyāṃ parimantrya ca muktahārāṃ suvalayāṃ divyāṃśukavirājitām | lāvaṇyalaharīṃ rukmavilasaddivyakañcukām tanme dṛggocaraṃ nityaṃ pūrvapuṇyaphalodayāt | viśvasya kāraṇānāṃ ca kāraṇaṃ tadvivarjitam

Then, when the night had passed and the sun had risen, he saw a black horse, sleek-limbed, exceedingly strong. Then he released (the arrow), and elephants appeared by the crore — four-tusked, like mountains, crushers of Meru and Mandara. Recognizing then by his eye of knowledge that the whole was made of illusion, he drew out two arrows and consecrated them with two mantras — (her) with a pearl necklace, fine bracelets, resplendent in divine garments, a wave of loveliness, with a divine bodice gleaming with gold. "May that be always visible to my eye, through the arising of the fruit of former merit — that which is the cause of the causes of the universe and yet devoid of (cause)..."

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GnP 2 66.25

मनोजवं हेषितेन कम्पयन्तं जगत्त्रयम् । पुपूज परया भक्त्या नीराज्यैनं यथाविधि येषां मदवहा नद्यः प्रादुरासन्समंततः । येषां बृंहितमात्रेण नादितं भुवनत्रयम् घण्टास्त्रेण खगास्त्रेण श्रोत्राकर्षणसंभ्रमात् । विनायको मुमोचाथ तौ बाणौ वेगवत्तरौ विनायकं निरीक्ष्यैव रुरोद दैत्यहस्तगा। धाव धावेति तं प्राह त्रासिताऽहं किमीक्ष्यसे वेदान्तवेद्यं सज्जोतिर्ज्योतिषामपि भास्वरम् । नानारूपमरूपं यद्बालरूपेण मे गृहे

manojavaṃ heṣitena kampayantaṃ jagattrayam | pupūja parayā bhaktyā nīrājyainaṃ yathāvidhi yeṣāṃ madavahā nadyaḥ prādurāsansamaṃtataḥ | yeṣāṃ bṛṃhitamātreṇa nāditaṃ bhuvanatrayam ghaṇṭāstreṇa khagāstreṇa śrotrākarṣaṇasaṃbhramāt | vināyako mumocātha tau bāṇau vegavattarau vināyakaṃ nirīkṣyaiva ruroda daityahastagā| dhāva dhāveti taṃ prāha trāsitā'haṃ kimīkṣyase vedāntavedyaṃ sajjotirjyotiṣāmapi bhāsvaram | nānārūpamarūpaṃ yadbālarūpeṇa me gṛhe

(He worshipped the horse,) swift as thought, shaking the three worlds with its neighing; he worshipped it with supreme devotion, waving lights before it as prescribed. Those (elephants) from whom rut-streams flowed as rivers appeared on every side, by whose mere trumpeting the three worlds were made to resound. Then Vināyaka, with the bell-weapon and the bird-weapon, in the confusion of (their) drawing away the hearing, released those two arrows, exceedingly swift. As soon as she saw Vināyaka, she who was in the demon's hand wept; "Run, run!" she said to him, "I am terrified — what are you looking at?" — "That which is to be known through Vedānta, light shining even beyond lights, of many forms and formless, which in the form of a boy in my house..."

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GnP 2 66.26

अलंकृत्यालंकरणैर्मणिमुक्तामयैः शुभैः । नमस्कृत्य द्विजान्सम्यक्पितरं परिगृहय च यथा यथा धनानां वर्षासु जितेन महामुने । नाशयामासुरनिशं देवसैन्यानि ते गजाः गर्जन्तौ घनवद्रुक्मपुंखै मारुतवेगिनौ । सहसाच्छादयन्तौ च सहस्रकरमण्डलम् एवं ब्रुवत्या दैत्योऽस्याश्चिच्छेद कञ्चुकीं बलात् । अंशुकं च चकर्षास्या मदेनाविष्टचेतसा क्रीडते स्वेच्छया पृथ्वीभारहारि मनोहरम् । क उवाच । एवं श्रुत्वा स्तुतिं तस्य प्रमृज्याश्रूणि विघ्नराट्

alaṃkṛtyālaṃkaraṇairmaṇimuktāmayaiḥ śubhaiḥ | namaskṛtya dvijānsamyakpitaraṃ parigṛhaya ca yathā yathā dhanānāṃ varṣāsu jitena mahāmune | nāśayāmāsuraniśaṃ devasainyāni te gajāḥ garjantau ghanavadrukmapuṃkhai mārutaveginau | sahasācchādayantau ca sahasrakaramaṇḍalam evaṃ bruvatyā daityo'syāściccheda kañcukīṃ balāt | aṃśukaṃ ca cakarṣāsyā madenāviṣṭacetasā krīḍate svecchayā pṛthvībhārahāri manoharam | ka uvāca | evaṃ śrutvā stutiṃ tasya pramṛjyāśrūṇi vighnarāṭ

Having adorned (him) with auspicious ornaments made of gems and pearls, having duly bowed to the brahmins and embraced his father — just as, O great sage, in the rainy season (clouds pour) by the winning of riches — those elephants ceaselessly destroyed the armies of the gods, the two (arrows) roaring like thunderclouds, golden-shafted, swift as the wind, and suddenly covering the orb of the thousand-rayed (sun). While she spoke thus, the demon forcibly tore off her bodice and dragged away her garment, his mind possessed by lust. — "(He who) plays at will, remover of the earth's burden, enchanting." Ka said: Hearing thus his praise, the Lord of obstacles wiped away his tears.

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GnP 2 66.27

आशिषोऽथ समारुहय तमश्वं स सुरान्तकः । शेषसेनां समादाय ययौ शेषं प्रकम्पयन् धावतां पृष्ठलग्नास्ते गजा यान्ति दिशो दश । पादाघातैश्च हस्तैश्च दन्ताग्रैर्वीघारतिनः घण्टानादः समभवन्महान्सर्वविमोहनः । ततो घण्टास्वनाञ्श्रुत्वा प्रोत्तस्थुः सर्वसैनिकाः उच्चैरुवाच देवं सा क्व गता पुरुषार्थता । लोकलज्जाभयान्मां त्वं निःस्नेहाशु विमोचय उवाच न क्षणं त्वत्तो यामि दूरं कदाचन । ततो राजा पुपूजैनमुपचारैरनेकशः

āśiṣo'tha samāruhaya tamaśvaṃ sa surāntakaḥ | śeṣasenāṃ samādāya yayau śeṣaṃ prakampayan dhāvatāṃ pṛṣṭhalagnāste gajā yānti diśo daśa | pādāghātaiśca hastaiśca dantāgrairvīghāratinaḥ ghaṇṭānādaḥ samabhavanmahānsarvavimohanaḥ | tato ghaṇṭāsvanāñśrutvā prottasthuḥ sarvasainikāḥ uccairuvāca devaṃ sā kva gatā puruṣārthatā | lokalajjābhayānmāṃ tvaṃ niḥsnehāśu vimocaya uvāca na kṣaṇaṃ tvatto yāmi dūraṃ kadācana | tato rājā pupūjainamupacārairanekaśaḥ

Then (having received) blessings, Surāntaka mounted that horse and, taking the remaining army, went forth, making Śeṣa tremble. Clinging to the backs of the fleeing ones, those elephants went in the ten directions, striking with blows of their feet, their trunks, and the tips of their tusks. There arose a great sound of bells, bewildering to all; then, hearing the sounds of the bells, all the soldiers rose up. She said aloud to the god: "Where has your manliness gone? Out of shame before the world and out of fear, release me quickly, you unfeeling one!" He said: "Not for a moment do I ever go far from you." Then the king worshipped him with offerings of many kinds.

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GnP 2 66.28

शस्त्रास्त्रैः कवचैः शूलैर्भाति सेना धनुःशरैः । आससाद रणस्तम्भं तथा सह सुरान्तकः सेनायाः कदनं दृष्ट्वा सिंहास्त्रं प्राक्षिपद्विभुः । ततः सिंहाः प्रादुरासन्शतशोऽथ सिद्धयः सर्ववीराश्च युयुधुः शत्रपाणयः। अपरस्तस्य सैन्येषु मुक्तो बाणः खगास्त्रतः विनायको निरीक्ष्यैतां बाष्पकण्ठो रुषान्वितः। न सस्मार विचारं स शस्त्राणि जगलुः करात् ततो वादित्रनिर्घोषैर्बन्दिशब्दैर्विमिश्रितैः । सुरान्तकवधाद्धर्षयुक्तैः सेनाचरैः सह

śastrāstraiḥ kavacaiḥ śūlairbhāti senā dhanuḥśaraiḥ | āsasāda raṇastambhaṃ tathā saha surāntakaḥ senāyāḥ kadanaṃ dṛṣṭvā siṃhāstraṃ prākṣipadvibhuḥ | tataḥ siṃhāḥ prādurāsanśataśo'tha siddhayaḥ sarvavīrāśca yuyudhuḥ śatrapāṇayaḥ| aparastasya sainyeṣu mukto bāṇaḥ khagāstrataḥ vināyako nirīkṣyaitāṃ bāṣpakaṇṭho ruṣānvitaḥ| na sasmāra vicāraṃ sa śastrāṇi jagaluḥ karāt tato vāditranirghoṣairbandiśabdairvimiśritaiḥ | surāntakavadhāddharṣayuktaiḥ senācaraiḥ saha

The army shone with weapons and missiles, armour, spears, bows and arrows; and so Surāntaka reached the pillar of battle. Seeing the slaughter of the army, the Lord hurled the lion-weapon; then lions appeared by hundreds, and then the (magical) powers. And all the heroes fought, weapons in hand; another arrow was released among his troops from the bird-weapon. Vināyaka, seeing her, his throat choked with tears and filled with rage, took no thought; the weapons slipped from his hand. Then, with the din of musical instruments mingled with the cries of bards, together with the soldiers, who were filled with joy at the slaying of Surāntaka...

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GnP 2 66.29

क्रन्दत्सु सर्वसैन्येषु संत्रस्ता देववाहिनी । व्याप्ते तु राजसा व्योम्नि न प्राज्ञायत किंचन तेषां गर्जित शब्देन गजा निपतिता भुवि। सिंहा विदारयामासुर्गजगण्डस्थलानि ते ततः खगाः प्रादुरासन्नानारूपा महौजसः । पक्षवातेन तेषां तद्गान्धर्वं लयमागतम् शुशोच मम मातेयं कथमस्य करे गता। धिग्जन्म यस्य जननि गताऽवस्थां दुरत्ययाम् विनायकं बालरूपं स्तुवद्भि स्वपुरं ययौ । विसृज्य सर्वलोकांश्च दत्त्वा वासांसि चैकशः

krandatsu sarvasainyeṣu saṃtrastā devavāhinī | vyāpte tu rājasā vyomni na prājñāyata kiṃcana teṣāṃ garjita śabdena gajā nipatitā bhuvi| siṃhā vidārayāmāsurgajagaṇḍasthalāni te tataḥ khagāḥ prādurāsannānārūpā mahaujasaḥ | pakṣavātena teṣāṃ tadgāndharvaṃ layamāgatam śuśoca mama māteyaṃ kathamasya kare gatā| dhigjanma yasya janani gatā'vasthāṃ duratyayām vināyakaṃ bālarūpaṃ stuvadbhi svapuraṃ yayau | visṛjya sarvalokāṃśca dattvā vāsāṃsi caikaśaḥ

While all the troops were shrieking, the host of the gods was terrified; and when the sky was filled with dust, nothing could be discerned. By the sound of their roaring the elephants fell to the ground, and the lions tore open the temple-regions of the elephants. Then birds appeared, of various forms, of great might; by the wind of their wings that Gandharva (illusion) came to dissolution. He grieved: "This is my mother — how has she come into his hand? Cursed be the birth of him whose mother has come to a state so hard to pass through!" — (The king) went to his own city with those who were praising Vināyaka in the form of a boy, dismissing all the people and giving garments to each one.

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GnP 2 66.31

दृष्ट्वा रणागतं तं तु सिद्धिसेना समुत्थिता । हेषाभिः सिंहनादैश्च नादयन्ती दिगन्तरम् उड्डीयोड्डीय सिंहास्ते गजकुम्भेषु पेतिरे । एवं ते निहताः सर्वे करिणः सिंहसंचयैः पक्षाघातहताः केचित्केचिच्चञ्च्वग्रविक्षताः । केचिद्भीत्यैव पतिता दैत्याः प्राणान्विहाय च स्वयं शुशोच बहुधा लोकोऽपि नगरे स्थितः । ततो देवान्तको देवं जगर्हे बहुधा तदा

dṛṣṭvā raṇāgataṃ taṃ tu siddhisenā samutthitā | heṣābhiḥ siṃhanādaiśca nādayantī digantaram uḍḍīyoḍḍīya siṃhāste gajakumbheṣu petire | evaṃ te nihatāḥ sarve kariṇaḥ siṃhasaṃcayaiḥ pakṣāghātahatāḥ kecitkeciccañcvagravikṣatāḥ | kecidbhītyaiva patitā daityāḥ prāṇānvihāya ca svayaṃ śuśoca bahudhā loko'pi nagare sthitaḥ | tato devāntako devaṃ jagarhe bahudhā tadā

Seeing him come to the battle, the army of the Siddhis rose up, making the horizons resound with neighings and lion-roars. Leaping up again and again, those lions fell upon the elephants' frontal globes; thus all the tusked ones were slain by the packs of lions. Some (demons) were slain by blows of wings, some torn by the tips of beaks, and some demons fell out of sheer fear, giving up their lives. He himself grieved in many ways, and the people who remained in the city too. Then Devāntaka reviled the god in many ways.

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GnP 2 66.32

ततः शस्त्रप्रहारैश्च विजघ्नुरितरेतरम् । सहस्व प्रहरामीति प्रबोध्य जघ्नुरोजसा विरेजुरिन्द्रनिहता वज्रणेव महीधराः । ततः सिंहा ययुर्दैत्यान्भक्षयन्तो दिशो दश हाहाकारो महानासीद्दैत्यसैन्येषु सर्वशः । ततो देवान्तको रोषात्खड्गास्त्रं प्राहिणोत्तदा धिग्जन्म पौरुषं तेऽद्य न प्राणं त्यजसे कथम् । निर्लज्जोऽसि मुखं लोके दर्शयस्येव योऽधुना

tataḥ śastraprahāraiśca vijaghnuritaretaram | sahasva praharāmīti prabodhya jaghnurojasā virejurindranihatā vajraṇeva mahīdharāḥ | tataḥ siṃhā yayurdaityānbhakṣayanto diśo daśa hāhākāro mahānāsīddaityasainyeṣu sarvaśaḥ | tato devāntako roṣātkhaḍgāstraṃ prāhiṇottadā dhigjanma pauruṣaṃ te'dya na prāṇaṃ tyajase katham | nirlajjo'si mukhaṃ loke darśayasyeva yo'dhunā

Then they struck one another with blows of weapons, crying "Bear it, I strike!" — challenging (one another) they struck with force. They shone like mountains smitten by Indra with the thunderbolt. Then the lions went in the ten directions devouring the demons; there was a great cry of "Alas!" everywhere among the demon armies. Then Devāntaka in fury hurled the sword-weapon. "A curse on your birth and your manhood today — why do you not give up your life? You are shameless, you who now still show your face in the world!"

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GnP 2 66.33

भुवि जानुं विनिक्षिप्य शरानाशीविषोमपान् । आकर्णं धनुराकृष्य युयधुस्ते परस्परम् निहते सर्वसैन्ये तु चितामाप सुरांतकः । अयं बालोऽपि बलवान्दृश्यते कश्यपात्मजः तस्य ध्वनिं समाकर्ण्य चुक्षुभे सैन्यसागरः । दिग्गजाश्च ततः खड्गा असंख्याता विनिःसृताः त्वत्समीपं हनिष्येऽस्याः शिरः कायात्खलाधुना। क उवाच । इति तं निष्ठुरं वाक्यं श्रुत्वा देवो विनायकः

bhuvi jānuṃ vinikṣipya śarānāśīviṣomapān | ākarṇaṃ dhanurākṛṣya yuyadhuste parasparam nihate sarvasainye tu citāmāpa surāṃtakaḥ | ayaṃ bālo'pi balavāndṛśyate kaśyapātmajaḥ tasya dhvaniṃ samākarṇya cukṣubhe sainyasāgaraḥ | diggajāśca tataḥ khaḍgā asaṃkhyātā viniḥsṛtāḥ tvatsamīpaṃ haniṣye'syāḥ śiraḥ kāyātkhalādhunā| ka uvāca | iti taṃ niṣṭhuraṃ vākyaṃ śrutvā devo vināyakaḥ

Planting a knee on the ground, drawing the bow to the ear with arrows like poisonous snakes, they fought one another. When the whole army was slain, Surāntaka fell to brooding: "This one, though a boy, is seen to be strong — the son of Kaśyapa." Hearing his roar, the ocean of the army was shaken, and the elephants of the quarters too; then swords beyond counting came forth. "In your very presence I shall now, you wretch, strike her head from her body!" Ka said: Hearing that harsh speech, the god Vināyaka...

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GnP 2 66.34

खेटानि चान्तरे कृत्वा युयुधुश्चापरे तदा । स्मृत्वा पूर्वप्रहारं च परिजघ्नुश्च केचन इदानीं दर्शयिष्येऽस्य यमस्य सदनं ध्रुवम् । एवमुक्त्वा पुनर्बाणं मन्त्रयामास दैत्यराट वह्निमन्तश्च संघट्टात्सेनयोरुभयोरपि । अग्निदग्धास्तदा देवा निपेतुर्धरणीतले तर्कयामास मनसि सत्यमेव वदत्ययम् । प्राणत्यागाय किं कार्यं विषं वा पाशबन्धनम्

kheṭāni cāntare kṛtvā yuyudhuścāpare tadā | smṛtvā pūrvaprahāraṃ ca parijaghnuśca kecana idānīṃ darśayiṣye'sya yamasya sadanaṃ dhruvam | evamuktvā punarbāṇaṃ mantrayāmāsa daityarāṭa vahnimantaśca saṃghaṭṭātsenayorubhayorapi | agnidagdhāstadā devā nipeturdharaṇītale tarkayāmāsa manasi satyameva vadatyayam | prāṇatyāgāya kiṃ kāryaṃ viṣaṃ vā pāśabandhanam

And others then fought, holding shields between (them); and some, recalling an earlier blow, struck all around. "Now I shall surely show him the abode of Yama!" — saying this, the demon king again consecrated an arrow with mantras; and from the clashing of the two armies there was fire within, and the gods, burnt by the fire, fell then to the surface of the earth. He reflected in his mind: "He speaks the very truth. What is to be done to give up life — poison, or the noose's bond?"

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GnP 2 66.35

पूर्ववैरमनुस्मृत्य रिपूंश्चक्रे विरूपिणः । कोऽपि वीरश्रिया युक्तो रिपुं केशेषु चाग्रहीत् योजयामास धनुषि शार्दूलप्रसवं तदा । आकर्ण धनुराकृष्य मुमोच देववाहिनीम् खगाश्च निहताः केचित्केचिद्दग्धास्तथाग्निना । अपरे ययुरन्तर्द्धि दिशश्चाथ चकाशिरे उदरे शस्त्रसंघातः कार्यो वा मृत्युहेतवे । इत्थं यावच्चिन्तयते दुःखशोकसमन्वितः

pūrvavairamanusmṛtya ripūṃścakre virūpiṇaḥ | ko'pi vīraśriyā yukto ripuṃ keśeṣu cāgrahīt yojayāmāsa dhanuṣi śārdūlaprasavaṃ tadā | ākarṇa dhanurākṛṣya mumoca devavāhinīm khagāśca nihatāḥ kecitkeciddagdhāstathāgninā | apare yayurantarddhi diśaścātha cakāśire udare śastrasaṃghātaḥ kāryo vā mṛtyuhetave | itthaṃ yāvaccintayate duḥkhaśokasamanvitaḥ

Recalling former enmity, he disfigured his foes; and someone, endowed with the splendour of a hero, seized his enemy by the hair. Then he fitted to his bow the tiger-brood (weapon), and drawing the bow to the ear he released it against the host of the gods. Some birds were slain, some burnt by fire, others went into invisibility, and then the quarters shone clear. "Or a mass of weapons should be driven into the belly as the cause of death" — while he was thinking thus, filled with grief and sorrow...

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GnP 2 66.36

पार्ष्णिघातैर्मुष्टिघातैः पातयामास भूतले । कौचिन्मत्तौ शिरोघातं जघ्नतुरितरेतरम् बाणः स च ययौ शीघ्रं नादयन्गगनं दिशः । यत्पुंखवायुना भग्ना निपेतुर्वृक्षसंचयाः असंख्यखड्गप्रभया सेनाचक्षुर्महोमुषा । खड्गवृष्ट्या विनिहता देवाः पेतुर्धरातले तावदाकाशवाणीं स शुश्राव च विनायकः । सोवाच । मायेयं रचिता देव दैत्येन दुष्टबुद्धिना

pārṣṇighātairmuṣṭighātaiḥ pātayāmāsa bhūtale | kaucinmattau śiroghātaṃ jaghnaturitaretaram bāṇaḥ sa ca yayau śīghraṃ nādayangaganaṃ diśaḥ | yatpuṃkhavāyunā bhagnā nipeturvṛkṣasaṃcayāḥ asaṃkhyakhaḍgaprabhayā senācakṣurmahomuṣā | khaḍgavṛṣṭyā vinihatā devāḥ peturdharātale tāvadākāśavāṇīṃ sa śuśrāva ca vināyakaḥ | sovāca | māyeyaṃ racitā deva daityena duṣṭabuddhinā

Then Surāntaka, seeing the demon army broken, sent forth the horse against the army fashioned by the Siddhis. And then many packs of tigers appeared; they devoured the lions, and then those lions vanished. Of some the arms were severed, of some the heads and hands; others were struck in the belly, in the knee-region, and in the back. "Be attentive to the battle; being intent, slay your own foe!" Then he became attentive, knowing that (army) to be made of illusion.

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GnP 2 66.37

ततो भग्नां दैत्यसेनां दृष्ट्वा स तु सुरान्तकः । अश्वं संप्रेषयामास सेनां सिद्धिविनिर्मिताम् प्रादुरासन्ननेकाश्च ततः शार्दूलसंचयाः । सिंहांस्ते भक्षयामासु सिंहास्तेऽन्तर्हितास्ततः केषाञ्चिद्बाहवच्छिन्नाः केषाञ्चिन्मस्तकाः कराः । जठरे जानुभागे च पृष्ठभागेऽपरा हताः अवधेहि रणं यत्तो भूत्वा जहि निजं रिपुम् । ततः स सावधानोऽभूज्ज्ञात्वा मायामयीं तु ताम्

tato bhagnāṃ daityasenāṃ dṛṣṭvā sa tu surāntakaḥ | aśvaṃ saṃpreṣayāmāsa senāṃ siddhivinirmitām prādurāsannanekāśca tataḥ śārdūlasaṃcayāḥ | siṃhāṃste bhakṣayāmāsu siṃhāste'ntarhitāstataḥ keṣāñcidbāhavacchinnāḥ keṣāñcinmastakāḥ karāḥ | jaṭhare jānubhāge ca pṛṣṭhabhāge'parā hatāḥ avadhehi raṇaṃ yatto bhūtvā jahi nijaṃ ripum | tataḥ sa sāvadhāno'bhūjjñātvā māyāmayīṃ tu tām

Hearing the horse's neighing, some fell to the ground in a swoon, and other gods were crushed by the horse's hooves; and lifeless they fell among the heaps of gods who lay dead. All the armies created by the eight Siddhis were thus destroyed. And the greatly wise one rejoiced and set about slaying the demon, recalling that boon given by Śambhu to that evil-souled one.

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GnP 2 66.38

अश्वहेषां समाकर्ण्य केचिन्मूर्छागता भुवि । पतिता अश्वचरणैश्चूर्णिताश्चापरेसुराः। निपेतुर्देवपुंजेषु मृतेषु च गतासवः । अष्टसिद्धिकृताः सर्वाः सेना एवं विनाशिताः जहर्ष च महाबुद्धिर्दैत्यं हन्तुं प्रचक्रमे । स्मृत्वा च तद्वरं शम्भुदत्तं तस्मै दुरात्मने

aśvaheṣāṃ samākarṇya kecinmūrchāgatā bhuvi | patitā aśvacaraṇaiścūrṇitāścāparesurāḥ| nipeturdevapuṃjeṣu mṛteṣu ca gatāsavaḥ | aṣṭasiddhikṛtāḥ sarvāḥ senā evaṃ vināśitāḥ jaharṣa ca mahābuddhirdaityaṃ hantuṃ pracakrame | smṛtvā ca tadvaraṃ śambhudattaṃ tasmai durātmane

Others were slain by the trident, and others likewise by the sword; and with many nets of arrows he brought down the gods. Then rivers of blood, bearing corpses, ran in the ten directions. Then Vināyaka, seeing the demon's marvellous prowess — "Except at the hour of dawn, all weapons and missiles are vain against you" — knowing his boon to be thus, he went forth at morning for battle.

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GnP 2 66.39

त्रिशूलेन हताश्चान्ये खड्गेन च तथा परे । बाणजालैरनेकैश्च पातयामास वै सुरान् असृङनद्यो दश दिशो याताः प्रेतवहास्तदा। विनायकस्ततो दृष्ट्वा दैत्यस्याद्भुतविक्रमम् उष:कालं विना सर्वशस्त्रास्त्राणि वृथा त्वयि । एवं तस्य वरं ज्ञात्वा प्रातर्युद्धाय निर्ययौ

triśūlena hatāścānye khaḍgena ca tathā pare | bāṇajālairanekaiśca pātayāmāsa vai surān asṛṅanadyo daśa diśo yātāḥ pretavahāstadā| vināyakastato dṛṣṭvā daityasyādbhutavikramam uṣa:kālaṃ vinā sarvaśastrāstrāṇi vṛthā tvayi | evaṃ tasya varaṃ jñātvā prātaryuddhāya niryayau

Some were slain by the trident and others likewise by the sword, and with many nets of arrows he felled the gods. Rivers of blood, bearing corpses, then ran in the ten directions. Then Vināyaka, seeing the demon's astonishing valour — (recalling) "except at dawn all weapons and missiles are in vain against you" — thus knowing his boon, went out at morning to fight.

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GnP 2 66.41

पर्वताश्च द्रुमास्तस्य शब्देन पतिता भुवि । तदस्त्रानलसंयोगाद्दिग्दाहः समजायत दन्तप्रकाशरुचिरं मुक्तादामविभूषितम् । दिव्याम्बरं सुधामानं व्योमस्पृक्पुष्करं विभुम्

parvatāśca drumāstasya śabdena patitā bhuvi | tadastrānalasaṃyogāddigdāhaḥ samajāyata dantaprakāśaruciraṃ muktādāmavibhūṣitam | divyāmbaraṃ sudhāmānaṃ vyomaspṛkpuṣkaraṃ vibhum

Mountains and trees fell to the ground at his roar; from the contact with that weapon's fire a conflagration of the quarters arose. (He was) lovely with the gleam of his tusk, adorned with strands of pearls, in divine garments, of fair splendour, touching the sky, (like) a lotus, the mighty lord.

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GnP 2 66.42

देदीप्यमानं सहसाच्छादयन्रविमण्डलम् । पक्षिणो निहता दग्धास्तेजसा तस्य केचन दृष्ट्वा देवान्तको रूपं बिभाय च विसस्मरे । अर्द्धं नरशरीरं किमर्द्धं गजसमं परम्

dedīpyamānaṃ sahasācchādayanravimaṇḍalam | pakṣiṇo nihatā dagdhāstejasā tasya kecana dṛṣṭvā devāntako rūpaṃ bibhāya ca visasmare | arddhaṃ naraśarīraṃ kimarddhaṃ gajasamaṃ param

Blazing, all at once covering over the sun's orb — some birds were struck down, burnt up by his fiery power. Seeing that form Devāntaka took fright and was bewildered: "Half is a human body — and what is the other half, like an elephant?"

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GnP 2 66.43

खण्डितं तेन सहसा खड्गास्त्रं तत्सहस्रशः । निर्ददाह तदा दैत्यसेनां वज्रैरनेकशः

khaṇḍitaṃ tena sahasā khaḍgāstraṃ tatsahasraśaḥ | nirdadāha tadā daityasenāṃ vajrairanekaśaḥ

By him the sword-weapon was in an instant broken to pieces, into thousands of fragments; then he burned up the demon army with thunderbolts, again and again.

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GnP 2 66.44

सहस्रशो निहन्यन्ते एकया वज्रधारया। यतो यतोऽगमद्दैत्यस्तत्र तत्रापतच्च तत्

sahasraśo nihanyante ekayā vajradhārayā| yato yato'gamaddaityastatra tatrāpatacca tat

By a single edge of the thunderbolt they are slain by the thousand; wherever the demon went, there too it fell.

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GnP 2 66.45

चुचूर्ण मस्तकान्पादान्हस्तान्स्कन्धानुरूनपि । धरां भित्त्वा गता दैत्यास्तानप्यथ जघान तत्

cucūrṇa mastakānpādānhastānskandhānurūnapi | dharāṃ bhittvā gatā daityāstānapyatha jaghāna tat

It crushed heads, feet, hands, shoulders and thighs as well; and the demons who had gone off splitting through the earth — those too it slew.

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GnP 2 66.46

एवं सर्वे हता दैत्या वज्रैस्तीक्ष्णः सहस्रशः । ततो देवान्तकं जग्मुस्तानि वज्राणि सर्वशः

evaṃ sarve hatā daityā vajraistīkṣṇaḥ sahasraśaḥ | tato devāntakaṃ jagmustāni vajrāṇi sarvaśaḥ

Thus all the demons were slain by thousands by the sharp thunderbolts; then those thunderbolts went at Devāntaka from every side.

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GnP 2 66.47

सोऽपि बाणं समादाय मन्त्रयामास यत्नतः । रौद्रास्त्रेणाथ संयोज्य धनुषः कर्षणेन तम्

so'pi bāṇaṃ samādāya mantrayāmāsa yatnataḥ | raudrāstreṇātha saṃyojya dhanuṣaḥ karṣaṇena tam

He too, taking up an arrow, carefully empowered it with mantras, and then, joining it to the Raudra missile, by a draw of the bow

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GnP 2 66.48

ससर्ज परसैन्येषु शिवनामांकितं शुभम् । नादयन्गगनं सोऽथ दिशश्च विदिशोऽपि च

sasarja parasainyeṣu śivanāmāṃkitaṃ śubham | nādayangaganaṃ so'tha diśaśca vidiśo'pi ca

he loosed it — auspicious, marked with Śiva's name — upon the enemy forces, making the sky resound, and the quarters and the intermediate quarters too,

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GnP 2 66.49

वमन्नग्निकणान्दिक्षु प्रलयानलसन्निभः । भूलोका देवलोकाश्च भयाद्याता दिशो दश

vamannagnikaṇāndikṣu pralayānalasannibhaḥ | bhūlokā devalokāśca bhayādyātā diśo daśa

spewing out sparks of fire in every direction, resembling the fire of the world's dissolution. The earthly worlds and the divine worlds fled in fear to the ten directions.

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GnP 2 66.51

निःसृतो भीषणमुखस्त्रैलोक्यं ग्रासयन्निव । जटिलो दीर्घहस्तश्च दीर्घपादो महोदरः

niḥsṛto bhīṣaṇamukhastrailokyaṃ grāsayanniva | jaṭilo dīrghahastaśca dīrghapādo mahodaraḥ

There came forth (a being) of dreadful face, as though devouring the three worlds, matted-haired, long-armed, long-legged, huge-bellied,

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GnP 2 66.52

धराधरो व्योमगोष्ठो गिरिजिह्वो भयानकः । वज्रास्त्रं भक्षयामास क्षणात्स पुरुषो महान्

dharādharo vyomagoṣṭho girijihvo bhayānakaḥ | vajrāstraṃ bhakṣayāmāsa kṣaṇātsa puruṣo mahān

bearing the earth, having his station in the sky, mountain-tongued, terrifying: in an instant that great being devoured the thunderbolt-weapon,

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GnP 2 66.53

विनायकं हन्तुकामो ययौ तस्यान्तिकं क्षणात् । ततो विनायकः शीघ्रं ब्रह्मास्त्रं समायोजयत्

vināyakaṃ hantukāmo yayau tasyāntikaṃ kṣaṇāt | tato vināyakaḥ śīghraṃ brahmāstraṃ samāyojayat

and, wishing to kill Vināyaka, in an instant he went near him. Then Vināyaka swiftly fitted on the Brahmā-weapon,

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GnP 2 66.54

मन्त्रेण शतसंख्येन सायके वेगवत्तरे । आकर्णकर्षणाद्देवो मुमोच सहसा च तम्

mantreṇa śatasaṃkhyena sāyake vegavattare | ākarṇakarṣaṇāddevo mumoca sahasā ca tam

with a mantra a hundred times (repeated) upon a most swift arrow, and the god, drawing it back to his ear, released it all at once.

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GnP 2 66.55

चकम्पे तस्य शब्देन तारेण भुवनत्रयम् । विस्फुलिंगैर्दिशो दग्धा न प्राज्ञायत किंचन

cakampe tasya śabdena tāreṇa bhuvanatrayam | visphuliṃgairdiśo dagdhā na prājñāyata kiṃcana

At its piercing sound the three worlds trembled; the quarters were scorched by its sparks; nothing at all could be discerned.

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GnP 2 66.56

ततोऽपि पुरुषो जज्ञे तादृशोऽतिभयानकः । तावुभौ युद्धतो व्योम्नि परस्परजयैषिणौ

tato'pi puruṣo jajñe tādṛśo'tibhayānakaḥ | tāvubhau yuddhato vyomni parasparajayaiṣiṇau

From that too there arose a being just as exceedingly terrible; and the two of them fought in the sky, each seeking victory over the other.

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GnP 2 66.57

नानाविधं मल्लयुद्धं चक्रतुस्तौ महाबलौ । क्षणेनान्तर्हितो चोभौ न दृश्यतेऽथ कुत्रचित्

nānāvidhaṃ mallayuddhaṃ cakratustau mahābalau | kṣaṇenāntarhito cobhau na dṛśyate'tha kutracit

Those two of great strength made wrestling-combat of many kinds; and in a moment both vanished, and were then not seen anywhere.

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