Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /154

GOVERNMEN
 
OF CULTURE
 
SL
 
Therefore one should be equanimous

in infamy and fame, defeat and victory,

misery and happiness, and death and

life."
 
AYA
 
THE STORY OF VRITRA ASURA
 

 
इन्द्रः -
अहो दानव सिद्धोऽसि यस्य ते मतिरीदृशी ।

यद्विहायासुरं भावं महापुरुषतां गतः ॥'

Indra-

"Hail, you demon! you have attained

salvation, you whose mind has become

thus; for you have cast away your

demoniac nature and become a great

man.
 
""
 

 
इति ब्रुवाणावन्योन्यं युयुधाते युधांपती ॥
 

Thus speaking to each other, the two

chiefs of the warriors fought.
 

 
जग्रास स समासाद्य वत्ज्रिणं सहवाहनम् ।

भित्त्वा वज्रेण तत्कुक्षिषिं निष्कम्य बलिभिद्विभुः ।

उच्चकर्त शिरइश्शत्रोर्गिरिशृङ्गमि वौजसा ॥
 

Vritra got at Indra and swallowed him

along with his elephant. The powerful

Indra tore his stomach with his thunder-

bolt, and getting out, forcefully chopped

off his head, like the summit of a

mountain.