अध्याय ९८
श्लोक 1
बहूनां स्त्रीसहस्राणाम् अष्टौ भार्याः प्रकीर्तिताः तासाम् अपत्यान् यष्टानां भगवान् प्रब्रवीतु मे
bahūnāṃ strīsahasrāṇām aṣṭau bhāryāḥ prakīrtitāḥ tāsām apatyān yaṣṭānāṃ bhagavān prabravītu me
हिन्दी अर्थ
विनाशके लिये समराज्भणकी ओर प्रस्थित हुए अन्वीयमानो जलदेवताभि- नभस्तले चन्द्रमिवातिकान्तम्। पर्जन्यमित्री च शशी च देव:। तथेवोर्जितविश्वकर्मा
English
Vaishampāyana said:—Stationed on the car brought by Kumbhānda, Guha (Kārtikeya) drove towards Krishna, Baladeva and Pradyumna and struck them with hundreds of dreadful and sharpened arrows. Bathed in blood those three gods, like unto three fires, fought with Kumara (2–4). After those heroes, expert in fighting, had struck Kumāra with three weapons given by Wind-God, Fire-God and Indra he, too, with three weapons, counteracted them and struck the Yadavas with three other weapons, namely Shaila, Vāruna and Sāvitri. They however, devoured, by virtue of their illusory powers, all the weapons shot by the great Kumāra, the holder of burning bow and shaft. Then the highly powerful Guha, burning in effulgence and biting his lips, took up the dreadful weapon Brahmashira like unto the Destroyer himself (5-8). When the highly dreadful weapon Brahmashira, endued with the effulgence of a thousand suns and destructive of the world, was discharged by Kumāra the creatures lost their consciousness through its warmth and fled away on all sides and the whole universe bewailed. Seeing it the powerful Keshava, the slayer of Keshi, took up his discus the destroyer and counteractor of all weapons. As in the rainy season the clouds cover the rays of the sun, so that discus, of the high-souled Keshava, clouded, with its lustre, that of Brahmashira weapon (9-12).