Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /317

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 हहृदे स्वभवनाभिभवं निरीक्ष्य

चक्षुःश्रवारस्समसरत्तदमृष्यमाणः ।

तं प्रेक्षणीयसुकुमारघनावदातं

सन्दश्य मर्मसु रुषा भुजया चछाद ॥
 

Seeing its abode in that pool assailed,
and intolerant of it, the serpent came up,

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