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RY OF CULTURE
 
मे
 
GOVERNMENT
 
SI
 
Finding that Kaliya to be powerful
with fiercely virulent poison and the
river poisoned by it, Krishna, who had
incarnated Himself for subduing the
wicked, got up a very high Kadamba*
tree, struck His palms over His arms,
girded up his loins fast, and jumped into
the poisonous waters.
 
HOM
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
तस्मिन् हदे स्वभवनाभिभवं निरीक्ष्य
चक्षुःश्रवारसमसरत्तदमृष्यमाणः ।
तं प्रेक्षणीयसुकुमारघनावदातं
सन्दश्य मर्मसु रुषा भुजया चछाद ॥
 
Seeing its abode in that pool assailed,
and intolerant of it, the serpent came up,
furiously bit at the vital parts Krishna,
blue like a beautiful cloud, and covered
Him with its coil.
 
तत्प्रथ्यमानवपुषा व्यथितात्मभोगः
त्यक्त्वोन्नमय्य कुपितः स्वफणान् भुजङ्गः ।
बभ्राम, तत्पृथुशिरस्स्वधिरूढ आद्यः
 
नृत्यन् पदाऽनुनमयन् दमयांबभूव ॥
 
* Nauclea Kadamba