अध्याय ६९
श्लोक 1
स नन्दगोपस्य गृहं प्रविष्टः सहकेशवः गोपवृद्धान् समानीय प्रोवाचामितदक्षिणः
sa nandagopasya gṛhaṃ praviṣṭaḥ sahakeśavaḥ gopavṛddhān samānīya provācāmitadakṣiṇaḥ
हिन्दी अर्थ
आया। वह बड़े हर्षके साथ बारम्बार उसकी ओर देखने लगी॥ ८॥ बालकका निरीक्षण करती हुई मायावतीके हृदयमें पूर्वकालकी स्मृति जाग उठी 'यही तो पूर्वकालमें मेरे प्रियतम पति थे' यह स्मरण करके वह इस प्रकार हैं, जिनके लिये मैं दिन-रात चिन्ता और शोकके समुद्रमें डूबी रहकर कभी कहीं भी चैन नहीं पाती हूँ अयं भगवता पूर्व देवदेवेन शूलिना। खेदितेन कृतो5नड्ो दृष्टो जात्यन्तरे मया भर्तुर्भार्या त्वहं भूत्वा वक्ष्ये वा पुत्र इत्युत
English
Beholding Nisunda thus slain the foremost of Asuras, Hayagriva, effulgent like a mountain, took up a huge rock and vauntingly hurled it with great force. Thereupon taking up his celestial cloudy weapon and discharging it Vishnu, the foremost of those conversant with the use of weapons, sundered the rock into seven and the stones fell down on earth. O foremost of Bharatas, with huge arrows of diverse colors discharged off the Sranga bow there set in a dreadful battle, abounding in various weapons like that between the gods and demons. Thus seated on Garuda the mighty-armed Janārddana began to destroy the demons; what more, all the Dānavas, who approached Nārāyana, were wounded with the huge ploughshare and killed with arrows and swords. Some, consumed by the fire of the discus, fell down from the sky, and some, coming near, gave up their ghost with grim-visaged countenance. And although mutilated with the arrows of Krishna, some Asuras, capable of fighting in many ways, began to make a downpour of arrows like unto clouds discharging their watery contents. Their persons were besmeared with blood like blossoming Kisgsuka trees and they, with their weapons broken and filled with fright, took to their heels (77–80). Thereupon with his eyes red hot in anger the Dānava Hayagriva again, with velocity of the wind, drew a tree ten fathoms high (81). Uprooting speedily that tree, the cloud-colored Hayagriva ran and hurled it with such a force by virtue of his training, that the huge sound, caused by the tree passing through air, was heard by every body. With a thousand arrows, Janārddana speedily and wonderfully cut that tree into many pieces and with one shaft struck Hayagriva on the breast. That arrow, burning like fire, with great force entered into the breast of the Dānava and came out piercing his very vitals (82–85). The dreadful Janārddana, of unlimited prowess, the enhancer of the delight of the Yādavas, killed that highly powerful and irrepressible Hayagriva who alone formerly fought with the gods for one thousand years. Having thus slain the grim-visaged and the iniquitous Hayagriva in the province of Lohitanga in a city encircled by walls and killed eight hundred thousand Dānavas Devaki's son, the Lord, the foremost of Pursushas and the slayer of his enemie's, set out for the city of Pragyotish (86–87).