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GOVERNMENT OF
 
RY OF CULTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
SL
 
Knowing her as the evil planet that
killed children, the Lord who is of the
form of the moving and the unmoving
world, remained with His eyes closed.
That deathless Lord, her death, she took
on her lap, as one might ignorantly a
sleeping serpent, taking it for a piece of
rope.
 
तस्मिस्स्तनं दुर्जरवीर्यमुल्बणं
 
ददौ, कराभ्यां भगवान्प्रपीड्य तत् ।
प्राणैस्समं रोषसमन्वितोऽपिवत्
निशाचरीत्थं व्यथिताऽपतत् [नृप] ॥
 
She offered him her terrible breast
containing indigestible poison. The
Lord crushed it with His hands, and
with anger, sucked it together with her
life. Thus tortured, the demoness fell
(dead).