Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /285

GOVERNMENKnowing 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.
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RY OF CUhat deathless LTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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Knowing her as the evil planet that
ord, her death, she tookilled
on her lap, as one might ignorantly a
sleeping serpent, taking it for a piechildren, the Lord who is of the
form of the moving and the unmoving
world, remained with His eyes closede of
rope.
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 रोषसमन्वितोऽपिवबत्

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).