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Chapter 36

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गर्ग उवाच - कुनन्दनोऽपि संमूर्च्छां त्यक्त्वागाद्‌रणमण्डले ॥ रथस्थः क्रोधसंयुक्तः प्रवर्षन्धनुषा शरान् ॥१॥ दृष्ट्वा तमागतं वीरोऽनिरुद्धः परवीरहा ॥ पप्रच्छ सेवकांस्तस्य वार्तां रोषेण दीपितः ॥२॥ सेवकास्ते ततः प्रोचुरेष बल्वलनन्दनः ॥ त्वया सार्द्धं महाराज युद्धं कर्तुं समागतः ॥३॥ श्रुत्वानिरुद्धः प्रोवाच हनिष्येऽहं कुनन्दनम् ॥ तदैव तमुवाचाथ कृष्णपुत्रः सुनन्दनः ॥४॥ सुनन्दन उवाच - राजन्कोऽयं दैत्यपुत्रः क्वेदं परिमितं बलम् ॥ जेष्येऽहं त्वत्प्रतापेन तस्माद्‍गच्छाम्यहं प्रभो ॥५॥ राजञ्छृणु प्रतिज्ञां मे तवानंदप्रदायिनीम् ॥ न चेत्कुनन्दनं जेष्ये बहुसंग्रामकोविदम् ॥६॥ कृष्णस्य चरणांभोजमध्वास्वादवियोगिनम् ॥ यत्पापञ्च भवेत्तन्मे न जये यदि दानवं ॥७॥ यो गुरुं भवहर्तारं पितरं च न सेवते ॥ यदघं तु भवेत्तस्य तन्मे भूयाञ्जयेन वै ॥८॥ इति प्रतिज्ञामाकर्ण्यानिरुद्धस्तस्य भूपते ॥ जहर्ष चित्ते तं वीरं निर्द्दिदेश रणं प्रति ॥९॥ इत्याज्ञप्तोऽनिरुद्धेन चैकाकी कृष्णनन्दनः ॥ जगाम दंशितस्तत्र यत्रास्ते बल्वलात्मजः ॥१०॥ कुनन्दनस्तमाज्ञाय त्वागतं प्रधने रुषा ॥ प्रत्युज्जगाम वीराग्र्यो रथी शूरशिरोमणिः ॥११॥ अन्योन्यं तौ सम्मिलितौ रथस्थौ चापधारिणौ ॥ रेजाते राजशार्दूल यथा दमनपुष्कलौ ॥१२॥ उभौ सायकभिन्नंगावुभौ रुधिरविप्लुतौ ॥ मुञ्चंतौ शरकोटीश्च संधंतौ तरसा शरान् ॥ १३॥ आदानेनैव सन्धानं मोचनं च न भूपते ॥ दृश्यते तौ महाशूरौ कुण्डलीकृतकार्मुकौ ॥१४॥ तद्‌रथं राजपुत्रस्तु भ्रामकास्त्रेण शोभिना ॥ भूतले भ्रामयामास कुंभकारस्य चक्रवत् ॥१५॥ भ्रांत्वा मुहूर्तमात्रं तु तद्‌रथो वाजिसंयुतः ॥ स्थितिं लेभे ततः कार्ष्णिर्जघान तद्‌रथे शरम् ॥१६॥ सयानस्तेन बाणेन खे बभ्राम मतंगवत् ॥ पपात कौ विशीर्णोऽभूद्यथा वै काचभाजनम् ॥१७॥ उत्थितः सोऽपि विरथो हताश्वो हतसारथिः ॥ अन्यं रथं समारुह्य यावदायाति संमुखम् ॥१८॥ बभंज तावद्बाणैश्च तद्‌रथं कृष्णनन्दनः ॥ एवं सप्त रथा भग्ना दैत्यपुत्रस्य वै रणे ॥१९॥ तदा कुनन्दनः संख्ये स्थित्वा याने विचित्रिते ॥ आययौ नृप वेगेन कृष्णपुत्रं नियोधितुम् ॥२०॥ आगत्य दशभिर्बाणैस्ताडयामास तं मृधे ॥ शरैस्तेः सोऽपि निहतः परं कश्मलतां गतः ॥ ततः स धनुरुद्यम्य गृहीत्वा दश सायकान् ॥ मुमोच तस्य हृदये क्रुद्धः कृष्णात्मजो बली ॥२२॥ ते शरा रुधिरं पीत्वा निपेतुर्वै महीतले ॥ यथा हि पितरो राजन्नरके कूटसाक्षिणः ॥ २३॥ कुनंदनः सुनन्दनं सुनन्दनः कुनन्दनम् ॥ महद्‌रणे महच्छरैर्निजघ्नतुः परस्परम् ॥२४॥ एवं हि तौ द्वौ शरभिन्नगात्रौ रक्ताप्लुतौ चापधरौ रुषाढ्यौ ॥ प्रचक्रतुर्युद्धवरं शरैश्च कुशांबसांबाविव संयुगे वै ॥२५॥ ततः कृष्णात्मजो वीरः कोदंडे स्वर्णनिर्मिते ॥ मृगांकार्द्धमुखं बाणं धृत्वा शीघ्रं तमब्रवीत् ॥२६॥ सुनन्दन उवाच - शृणु मद्वचनं वीर बाणेनानेन त्वच्छिरः ॥ सद्यश्छिन्नं करिष्येऽहं शिरो रक्ष बली यदि ॥२७॥ यदि मद्वचनं सत्यं प्रधने त्वं न मन्यसे ॥ तदा शृणु प्रतिज्ञां मे तव मृत्युविषूचिकाम् ॥२८॥ सतीं च गुरुपत्‍नीं च यो दूषयति कामतः ॥ स याति यातनां यां वै यमराजस्य सन्निधौ ॥२९॥ सा यातना च मे भूयात्सत्यं मम प्रतिश्रुतम् ॥ यः समर्थश्च स्वगुरुं पितरं च न पालयेत् ॥३०॥ तस्य पापं ममैवास्तु न हनिष्ये च त्वां रणे ॥ इति श्रुत्वा च तद्वाक्यं दैत्य आह रुषा ज्वलन् ॥३१॥ राजपुत्र उवाच - बिभेमि नाहं रणात्संग्रामे शत्रुसम्मुखे ॥ प्राणिनां चैव सर्वेषां मृत्युर्भवति सांप्रतम् ॥३२॥ यदि मुंचसि संग्रामे मद्‌वधार्थे महाशरम् ॥ तदाहं स्वशरेणापि शीघ्रं छेद्मि न संशयः ॥३३॥ एकादश्यां च ये मानादन्नं भुंजंति भूतले ॥ मातरं भ्रातृपत्‍नीं च भगिनीं च सुतां तथा ॥ पापं तेषां ममैवास्तु न छेद्मि यदि त्वच्छरम् ॥३४॥ इति तस्य वच: स्पष्टं श्रुत्वा शंकितमानसः ॥ प्रत्युवाच पुनर्वाक्यं श्रीकृष्णं सोऽपि संस्मरन् ॥३५॥ सुनन्दन उवाच - मया कृष्णांघ्रियुगलं सेवितं मनसा यदि ॥ कपटेन विना तर्हि सत्यं भूयाद्वचो मम ॥३६॥ स्वपत्‍नीं च विना वीर नान्यां पश्यामि कामतः ॥ तेन सत्येन संग्रामे वाक्यं भूयादृतं मम ॥३७॥ इत्युक्त्वा सायकं तीक्ष्णं विमुमोच सुनन्दनः ॥ मंत्रयित्वा च मंत्रेण महाकालानलोपमम् ॥३८॥ प्रमुक्तं वीक्ष्य विशिखं स्वबाणेन नृपात्मजः ॥ सद्यश्चिच्छेद हि यथा सर्पं पक्षेण पक्षिराट् ॥३९॥ छिन्ने तस्मिञ्छरे राजन्हाहाकारस्तदाभवत् ॥ चचाल पृथिवी लोकैर्देवास्ते विस्मयं गताः ॥४०॥ परार्द्धः पतितो बाणः पूर्वार्द्धः फलसंयुतः ॥ शिरश्चिच्छेद दैत्यस्य तरोः स्कंधं यथा गजः ॥४१॥ किरीटकुण्डलैर्युक्तं पतितं तस्य मस्तकम् ॥ निरीक्ष्य हाहाशब्दं वै चक्रुर्दैत्याश्च दुःखिताः ॥४२॥ कुनन्दनकबंधस्तु शीघ्रमुत्थाय संयुगे ॥ खड्गेन मुष्टिभिः पादैर्बहूञ्छत्रूञ्जघान ह ॥४३॥ ततश्च यदुसेनायां नेदुर्दुंदुभयो मुहुः ॥ सुनंदनोपरि सुराः पुष्पवर्षं प्रचक्रिरे ॥४४॥ इति श्रीगर्गसंहितायां हयमेधखण्डे दैत्यपुत्रवधवर्णनं नाम षट्‌त्रिंशोऽध्यायः ॥३६॥ हरिः ॐ तत्सत् श्रीकृष्णार्पणमस्तु ॥

garga uvāca - kunandano'pi saṃmūrcchāṃ tyaktvāgād‌raṇamaṇḍale || rathasthaḥ krodhasaṃyuktaḥ pravarṣandhanuṣā śarān ||1|| dṛṣṭvā tamāgataṃ vīro'niruddhaḥ paravīrahā || papraccha sevakāṃstasya vārtāṃ roṣeṇa dīpitaḥ ||2|| sevakāste tataḥ procureṣa balvalanandanaḥ || tvayā sārddhaṃ mahārāja yuddhaṃ kartuṃ samāgataḥ ||3|| śrutvāniruddhaḥ provāca haniṣye'haṃ kunandanam || tadaiva tamuvācātha kṛṣṇaputraḥ sunandanaḥ ||4|| sunandana uvāca - rājanko'yaṃ daityaputraḥ kvedaṃ parimitaṃ balam || jeṣye'haṃ tvatpratāpena tasmād‍gacchāmyahaṃ prabho ||5|| rājañchṛṇu pratijñāṃ me tavānaṃdapradāyinīm || na cetkunandanaṃ jeṣye bahusaṃgrāmakovidam ||6|| kṛṣṇasya caraṇāṃbhojamadhvāsvādaviyoginam || yatpāpañca bhavettanme na jaye yadi dānavaṃ ||7|| yo guruṃ bhavahartāraṃ pitaraṃ ca na sevate || yadaghaṃ tu bhavettasya tanme bhūyāñjayena vai ||8|| iti pratijñāmākarṇyāniruddhastasya bhūpate || jaharṣa citte taṃ vīraṃ nirddideśa raṇaṃ prati ||9|| ityājñapto'niruddhena caikākī kṛṣṇanandanaḥ || jagāma daṃśitastatra yatrāste balvalātmajaḥ ||10|| kunandanastamājñāya tvāgataṃ pradhane ruṣā || pratyujjagāma vīrāgryo rathī śūraśiromaṇiḥ ||11|| anyonyaṃ tau sammilitau rathasthau cāpadhāriṇau || rejāte rājaśārdūla yathā damanapuṣkalau ||12|| ubhau sāyakabhinnaṃgāvubhau rudhiraviplutau || muñcaṃtau śarakoṭīśca saṃdhaṃtau tarasā śarān || 13|| ādānenaiva sandhānaṃ mocanaṃ ca na bhūpate || dṛśyate tau mahāśūrau kuṇḍalīkṛtakārmukau ||14|| tad‌rathaṃ rājaputrastu bhrāmakāstreṇa śobhinā || bhūtale bhrāmayāmāsa kuṃbhakārasya cakravat ||15|| bhrāṃtvā muhūrtamātraṃ tu tad‌ratho vājisaṃyutaḥ || sthitiṃ lebhe tataḥ kārṣṇirjaghāna tad‌rathe śaram ||16|| sayānastena bāṇena khe babhrāma mataṃgavat || papāta kau viśīrṇo'bhūdyathā vai kācabhājanam ||17|| utthitaḥ so'pi viratho hatāśvo hatasārathiḥ || anyaṃ rathaṃ samāruhya yāvadāyāti saṃmukham ||18|| babhaṃja tāvadbāṇaiśca tad‌rathaṃ kṛṣṇanandanaḥ || evaṃ sapta rathā bhagnā daityaputrasya vai raṇe ||19|| tadā kunandanaḥ saṃkhye sthitvā yāne vicitrite || āyayau nṛpa vegena kṛṣṇaputraṃ niyodhitum ||20|| āgatya daśabhirbāṇaistāḍayāmāsa taṃ mṛdhe || śaraisteḥ so'pi nihataḥ paraṃ kaśmalatāṃ gataḥ || tataḥ sa dhanurudyamya gṛhītvā daśa sāyakān || mumoca tasya hṛdaye kruddhaḥ kṛṣṇātmajo balī ||22|| te śarā rudhiraṃ pītvā nipeturvai mahītale || yathā hi pitaro rājannarake kūṭasākṣiṇaḥ || 23|| kunaṃdanaḥ sunandanaṃ sunandanaḥ kunandanam || mahad‌raṇe mahaccharairnijaghnatuḥ parasparam ||24|| evaṃ hi tau dvau śarabhinnagātrau raktāplutau cāpadharau ruṣāḍhyau || pracakraturyuddhavaraṃ śaraiśca kuśāṃbasāṃbāviva saṃyuge vai ||25|| tataḥ kṛṣṇātmajo vīraḥ kodaṃḍe svarṇanirmite || mṛgāṃkārddhamukhaṃ bāṇaṃ dhṛtvā śīghraṃ tamabravīt ||26|| sunandana uvāca - śṛṇu madvacanaṃ vīra bāṇenānena tvacchiraḥ || sadyaśchinnaṃ kariṣye'haṃ śiro rakṣa balī yadi ||27|| yadi madvacanaṃ satyaṃ pradhane tvaṃ na manyase || tadā śṛṇu pratijñāṃ me tava mṛtyuviṣūcikām ||28|| satīṃ ca gurupat‍nīṃ ca yo dūṣayati kāmataḥ || sa yāti yātanāṃ yāṃ vai yamarājasya sannidhau ||29|| sā yātanā ca me bhūyātsatyaṃ mama pratiśrutam || yaḥ samarthaśca svaguruṃ pitaraṃ ca na pālayet ||30|| tasya pāpaṃ mamaivāstu na haniṣye ca tvāṃ raṇe || iti śrutvā ca tadvākyaṃ daitya āha ruṣā jvalan ||31|| rājaputra uvāca - bibhemi nāhaṃ raṇātsaṃgrāme śatrusammukhe || prāṇināṃ caiva sarveṣāṃ mṛtyurbhavati sāṃpratam ||32|| yadi muṃcasi saṃgrāme mad‌vadhārthe mahāśaram || tadāhaṃ svaśareṇāpi śīghraṃ chedmi na saṃśayaḥ ||33|| ekādaśyāṃ ca ye mānādannaṃ bhuṃjaṃti bhūtale || mātaraṃ bhrātṛpat‍nīṃ ca bhaginīṃ ca sutāṃ tathā || pāpaṃ teṣāṃ mamaivāstu na chedmi yadi tvaccharam ||34|| iti tasya vaca: spaṣṭaṃ śrutvā śaṃkitamānasaḥ || pratyuvāca punarvākyaṃ śrīkṛṣṇaṃ so'pi saṃsmaran ||35|| sunandana uvāca - mayā kṛṣṇāṃghriyugalaṃ sevitaṃ manasā yadi || kapaṭena vinā tarhi satyaṃ bhūyādvaco mama ||36|| svapat‍nīṃ ca vinā vīra nānyāṃ paśyāmi kāmataḥ || tena satyena saṃgrāme vākyaṃ bhūyādṛtaṃ mama ||37|| ityuktvā sāyakaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ vimumoca sunandanaḥ || maṃtrayitvā ca maṃtreṇa mahākālānalopamam ||38|| pramuktaṃ vīkṣya viśikhaṃ svabāṇena nṛpātmajaḥ || sadyaściccheda hi yathā sarpaṃ pakṣeṇa pakṣirāṭ ||39|| chinne tasmiñchare rājanhāhākārastadābhavat || cacāla pṛthivī lokairdevāste vismayaṃ gatāḥ ||40|| parārddhaḥ patito bāṇaḥ pūrvārddhaḥ phalasaṃyutaḥ || śiraściccheda daityasya taroḥ skaṃdhaṃ yathā gajaḥ ||41|| kirīṭakuṇḍalairyuktaṃ patitaṃ tasya mastakam || nirīkṣya hāhāśabdaṃ vai cakrurdaityāśca duḥkhitāḥ ||42|| kunandanakabaṃdhastu śīghramutthāya saṃyuge || khaḍgena muṣṭibhiḥ pādairbahūñchatrūñjaghāna ha ||43|| tataśca yadusenāyāṃ nedurduṃdubhayo muhuḥ || sunaṃdanopari surāḥ puṣpavarṣaṃ pracakrire ||44|| iti śrīgargasaṃhitāyāṃ hayamedhakhaṇḍe daityaputravadhavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṭ‌triṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ||36|| hariḥ oṃ tatsat śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu ||

English translation

The Slaying of Daitya Putra Kunandan by Sri Krishna Putra Sunandana

Srigarji says - Rajan! At the same time, Kunandan too, having given up fainting, came to the battlefield on a chariot, raining down arrows with a furious bow. Aniruddha, the hero who destroyed the enemy heroes, saw him and was furious and asked his servants about him. The servants said, "Your Majesty! This is Balvalnandan Kunandan and has come to fight with you. Hearing this, Aniruddha said - 'I will kill Kunandan. "At the same time, Sunandana, the son of Krishna, said to them. 1 - 4.

Sunandana said, "O king! What is this demon son? And what does this little army of it hold back? Oh my lord. I will conquer it with your might. So it is I who go to war. The king! Listen to the word that I promise you. This will bring you joy - 'If I do not conquer the more valiant Kunandan, then the sin that men who refrain from enjoying the nectar of Krishna's feet will be felt by me.' If I do not defeat this demon, then the sin of a man who is averse to the service of his teacher and father, who takes up Bhavbandhan, is the same as that of me. 5-8 | (Ashwamedh Khand Chapter 36 to 40)

Prithvi Nath! Aniruddha was overjoyed at Sunandana's promise and ordered the hero to fight. Thus, on Aniruddha's orders, Sreekrishnanandana went alone to the place where Balval-Nandana Kunandan was present, wearing the Sunandana armor. When Kunandan saw Sunandana coming to fight, he proceeded to receive him with indignation, for he was the best of heroes, charioteer, and knight. Rajasinha. The two charioteers, seated on chariots and wearing bows, joined each other and began to exalt themselves as Daman and Pushkal. Both of their bodies were being torn apart by the psycho. Both appeared to be covered in blood and both fired millions of arrows at high speed. Prithvi Nath! It was not known when they took the arrows, placed them on the bows, and released them. The two great knights were shown pulling the bow and forming a kundal. The demon prince rotated Sunandana's chariot like a potter's wheel on the ground floor with a graceful deceptive weapon. His chariot, after circling for two hours, settled down with the horses. Then Srikrishnakumar shot an arrow at Kunandan's chariot. Hurt by the arrow, the chariot went up to the sky with its horses, circled like a drunken elephant, and fell to the earth. It shattered like a glassware when it fell. As the chariot, horses, and chariots were destroyed, Kunandan got up and climbed onto another chariot and as soon as he appeared, Krishnanandan shot multiple arrows and defied Sunandan's chariot. Thus the seven chariots of Daitya Kumara were destroyed in that battlefield. 9-19 |

O Lord! Then Kunandan, sitting in a strange vehicle, came in haste to face Krishna's son on the battlefield. On his arrival, Kunandan shot ten arrows at Sunandana on the battlefield. He was in great pain when he was wounded by those arrows. Enraged, the mighty Krishnakumar picked up the bow and took it in his ten hand and released it targeting Kunandan's chest. The king! The arrows drank the giant's blood and fell to the earth, just as the fathers of those who bear false witness fall into hell. Kunandan started injuring Sunandan and Sunandan Kunandan each other with huge arrows in that great battle. 20-24 |

Both of their bodies were thus mutilated by the impact of the arrows. Both had been bathed in blood and were fighting fiercely with bows and arrows at each other in fury. In that battlefield, Kunandan and Sunandan were adorned like Kushambas and Sambakas. Krishnakumar Vira Sunandana then placed a crescent-shaped arrow on a gold-plated staff and quickly told Kunandana. 25-26 | (Ashwamedh Khand Chapter 36 to 40)

Sunandan said, "Veer! Listen to me I will cut off your head at this very moment with this arrow. If you are strong, protect your head. If you do not believe what I say in this battlefield, then listen to my promise to inform you of your death - 'Whoever defiles sati, sadhvi, husband, and wife with lust, the same torture that he is subjected to near Yamraj, the same torture will be meted out to me; if my promise is not true. The sins of the one who does not obey his teacher and father while in power are mine, if I do not kill you on the battlefield. " 27-30 |

When the demon heard this from Sunandana, he was furious and spoke. 31.

The demon prince said, "I am not afraid to die in battle in the face of the enemy. Death belongs to all beings; but whatever great arrow you shoot at my slayer in battle at this time, I will cut it off with my own arrow at once, no doubt. Those who proudly eat food on Ekadashi on this earth and sin with mother, brother-in-law, sister, and daughter, the sin of all of them will be mine, if I do not cut off your arrows. 32-34 |

Hearing this obvious statement, Sunandhan became suspicious. So they also spoke again, remembering Krishna. 35.

Sunandan said, "If I have given up deceit and consumed Charanarvindoka, the couple of the true MNS Sri Krishna, then my word is true." Heroic! If I do not look at a woman with lust other than my wife, then this statement of mine must be true in the battlefield under the influence of this truth. 36-37 |

- Having said this, Sunandana left with a sharp psycho mantra similar to Mahakal and Agni. Seeing the arrow gone, the demon prince cut it instantly with his arrow; just as the bird king Garuda cuts the serpent into two pieces with his wing. The king! As soon as the arrow was cut, there was an immediate commotion. The earth began to shake along with the worlds, and the gods were amazed. The lower half of the arrow was cut off and fell, but the fruitful first half escaped and cut off the demon's head in the same way that an elephant breaks the trunk of a tree. 38-41 | (Ashwamedh Khand Chapter 36 to 40)

All the demons were sad and cried out when they saw his head, which had crowns and coils, cut off and fell. Kunandan's thunders rose quickly on the battlefield and killed many enemies with swords, punches, and kicks. Thereafter, the Yadava army began to play the drum repeatedly, and the gods showered flowers on Sunandan. 42-44 |

Thus was completed the thirty-sixth chapter in the Ashvamedha Khanda under the Srigargha Samhita, titled "The Description of the Slayer of the Daitya's Son." 36.

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