Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /299

OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
SRIMAD Bentering (the space between them), the
mortar (to which HAGAVATA
 
SL
 
entering (the spae was tied) bece between them), the
mortar (to which He was tied) became
ame
transverse.
 
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कृति मंधालय
 

 
बालेन निष्कर्षयताऽन्वगुलूखलं तत्

दामोदरेण तरसोत्कलिताङङ्घ्रिबन्धौ ।

निष्पेततुः परमविक्रमितातिवेप-

स्कन्धप्रवालविटपौ कृतचण्डशब्दौ ॥
 

Forcibly uprooted by the rope-girdled

boy who was dragging that rolling

mortar, the two trees, with their trunks,

boughs and leaves shaking fiercely as

a result of the impact of the strength of

the Supreme, fell down with a terrible

noise.
 

 
तत्र सिद्धौ विरजसौ परिक्रम्य प्रणम्य च ।

बद्धोलूखलमामन्त्र्य जग्मतुर्दिशमुत्तराम् ॥
 

The two Siddhas, rid of their impurity,

went round and bowed to the Lord tied

to the mortar, and taking His leave, went

to the north.*
 

 
* Their abode, the city of Kubera, Alaka, is in the

Himalayas, in the north.