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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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नरकासुरवधः
 

 
THE KILLING OF NARAKASURA
 

 
इन्द्रेण हृतच्छत्रेण ज्ञापितो भौमचेष्टितम् ।

सभार्यो गरुडारूढः प्राग्ज्योतिषपुरं ययौ ॥
 

Informed of the activities of (the

demon) Bhauma* by Indra whose emblem

of sovereignty, the umbrella, had been

carried away (by Bhauma), the Lord,

mounting Garuda, went to the capital

city of the Pragjyotishas along with his

wife, (Satyabhama). t
 

 
पाञ्चजन्यध्वनिं श्रुत्वा युगान्ताशनिभीषणम् ।

मुरश्श्यान उत्तस्थौ दैत्यः पञ्चशिरा जलात् ॥
 

Hearing the sound of the Panchajanya

(the Lord's conch), dreadful like the

thunder at the time of the aeon-end, the

five-headed demon, Mura, who was

sleeping, rose out of the waters.
 

 
* Narakasura, born of Mother Earth and the Lord,

when the latter in the form of the Boar, lifted the

former out of the ocean.
 

 
t Krishna's second wife
Satyabhama was the
 
t Krishna's second wife

daughter of Satrajit.