Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /257

TRY OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
तिम
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
तमापतन्तं ददृशे पुरीं विशन्

अचोदयद्धस्तिरथाश्वपत्तिभिः ।
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अक्षौहिणीस्स प्रदशातिभीषणाः

ता राम एको भगवानसूदयत् ॥
 

Arjuna beheld HOW
ने
 
भारत सरकार
 
SL
 
Arjuna beheld Him rushing, as he was

entering his city, and directed (against

Him) seventeen formidable Akshauhinis*

of elephants, chariots, horses and foot.

Singly, Lord Rama destroyed them.
 

 
अथार्जुनः पञ्ञ्चशतेषु बाहुभि-

र्धनुष्षु बाणान्युगपत्स सन्दधे ।

रामाय रामोऽस्त्रभृतां समग्रणी-

स्तान्ये कधन्वेषुभिराच्छिनत्समम् ॥
 

Then Arjuna simultaneously aimed at

Rama arrows from the five-hundred bows

in his arms. Rama, the foremost of the

wielders of missiles, simultaneously. cut

all his bows with the arrows of but one

bow.
 

 
* An Akshauhini is an unit of army comprising

21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horses and

109,350 foot.