Bhūmi-khaṇḍa · Chapter 115
Sourceकुंजल उवाच- ततस्त्वसौ संयति राजमानः समुद्यतश्चापधरो महात्मा । यथैव कालः कुपितः सलोकान्संहर्तुमैच्छत्तु तथा सुदानवान् १। महास्त्रजालै रवितेजतुल्यैः सुदीप्तिमद्भिर्निजघान दानवान् । वायुर्यथोन्मूलयतीह पादपांस्तथैव राजा निजघान दानवान् २। वायुर्यथा मेघचयं च दिव्यं संचालयेत्स्वेन बलेन तेजसा । तथा स राजा असुरान्मदोत्कटाननाशयद्बाणवरैः सुतीक्ष्णैः ३। न शेकुर्दानवाः सर्वे बाणवर्षं महात्मनः । मृताः केचिद्द्रुताः केचित्केचिन्नष्टा महाहवात् ४। सूत उवाच- महातेजं महाप्राज्ञं महादानवनाशनम् । चुक्रोध हुंडो दुष्टात्मा दृष्ट्वा तं नृपनंदनम् ५। स्थितो गत्वेदमाभाष्य तिष्ठतिष्ठेति चाहवे । त्वामद्य च नयिष्यामि आयुपुत्र यमांतिकम् ६। नहुष उवाच- स्थितोस्मि समरे पश्य त्वामहं हंतुमागतः । अहं त्वां तु हनिष्यामि दानवं पापचेतनम् ७। इत्युक्त्वा धनुरादाय बाणानग्निशिखोपमान् । छत्रेण ध्रियमाणेन शुशुभे सोऽपि संयुगे ८। इंद्रस्य सारथिं दिव्यं मातलिं वाक्यमब्रवीत् । वाहयतु रथं मेऽद्य हुंडस्य सम्मुखं भवान् ९। इत्युक्तस्तेन वीरेण मातलिर्लघुविक्रमः । तुरगांश्चोदयामास महावातजवोपमान् १०। उत्पेतुश्च ततो वाहा हंसा इव यथांबरे । छत्रेण इंदुवर्णेन रथेनापि पताकिना ११। नभस्तलं तु संप्राप्य यथा सूर्यो विराजते । आयुपुत्रस्तथा संख्ये तेजसा विक्रमेण तु १२। अथ हुंडो रथस्थोऽपि राजमानः स्वतेजसा । सर्वायुधैश्च संयुक्तस्तद्वद्वीरव्रते स्थितः १३। उभयोर्वीरयोर्युद्धं देवविस्मयकारकम् । तदा आसीन्महाप्राज्ञ दारुणं भीतिदायकम् १४। सुबाणैर्निशितैस्तीक्ष्णैः कंकपत्रैः शिलीमुखैः । हुंडेन ताडितो राजा सुबाह्वोरंतरे तदा १५। सुभाले पंचभिर्बाणैर्विद्धः क्रुद्धोऽभवत्तदा । सविद्धस्तु तदा बाणैरधिकं शुशुभे नृपः १६। सारुणः करमालाभिरुदयंश्च दिवाकरः । रुधिरेण तु दिग्धांगो हेमबाणैस्तनुस्थितैः १७। सूर्यवच्छोभते राजा पूर्वकालस्य चांबरे । दृष्ट्वा तु पौरुषं तस्य दानवं वाक्यमब्रवीत् १८। तिष्ठतिष्ठ क्षणं दैत्य पश्य मे लाघवं पुनः । इत्युक्त्वा तु रणे दैत्यं जघान दशभिः शरैः १९। मुखे भाले हतस्तेन मूर्च्छितो निपपात ह । पश्यामानैः सुरैर्दिव्यै रथोपरि महाबलः २०। देवैश्च चारणैः सिद्धैः कृतः शब्दः सुहर्षजः । जयजयेति राजेंद्र शंखान्दध्मुः पुनः पुनः २१। सकोलाहलशब्दस्तु तुमलो देवतेरितः । कर्णरंध्रमाविवेश हुंडस्य मूर्छितस्य च २२। श्रुत्वा सधनुरादाय बाणमाशीविषोपमम् । स्थीयतां स्थीयतां युद्धे न मृतोस्मि त्वया हतः २३। इत्युक्त्वा पुनरुत्थाय लाघवेन समन्वितः । एकविंशतिभिर्बाणैर्नहुषं चाहनत्पुनः २४। एकेन मुष्टिमध्ये तु चतुर्भिर्बाहुमध्यतः । चतुर्भिश्च महाश्वांश्च छत्रमेकेन तेन वै २५। पंचभिर्मातलिं विद्ध्वा रथनीडं तु सप्तभिः । ध्वजदंडं त्रिभिस्तीक्ष्णैर्दानवः शिखिपत्रिभिः २६। आदानं तु निदानं तु लक्षमोक्षं दुरात्मनः । लाघवं तस्य संदृष्ट्वा देवता विस्मयंगताः २७। तस्य पौरुषमापश्य स राजा दानवोत्तमम् । शूरोसि कृतविद्योसि धीरोसि रणपंडितः २८। इत्युक्वा दानवं तं तु धनुर्विस्फार्य भूपतिः । मार्गणैर्दशभिस्तं तु विव्याध लघुविक्रमः २९। त्रिभिर्ध्वजं प्रचिच्छेद स पपात धरातले । तुरगान्पातयामास चतुर्भिस्तस्य सायकैः ३०। एकेन छत्रं तस्यापि चकर्त लघुविक्रमः । दशभिः सारथिस्तस्य प्रेषितो यममंदिरम् ३१। दंशनं दशभिश्छित्त्वा शरैश्च विदलीकृतः । सर्वांगेषु च त्रिंशद्भिर्विव्याध दनुजेश्वरम् ३२। हताश्वो विरथो जातो बाणपाणिर्धनुर्धरः । अभ्यधावत्स वेगेन वर्षयन्निशितैः शरैः ३३। खड्गचर्मधरो दैत्यो राजानं तमधावत । धावमानस्य हुंडस्य खड्गं चिच्छेद भूपतिः ३४। क्षुरप्रैर्निशितैर्बाणैश्चर्म चिच्छेद भूपतिः । अथ हुंडः स दुष्टात्मा समालोक्य समंततः ३५। जग्राह मुद्गरं तूर्णं मुमोच लघुविक्रमः । वज्रवेगं समायांतं ददृशे नृपतिस्तदा ३६। मुद्गरं स्वनवंतं चापातयदंबरात्ततः । दशभिर्निशितैर्बाणैः क्षुरप्रैश्च स्वविक्रमात् ३७। मुद्गरं पतितं दृष्ट्वा दशखण्डमयं भुवि । गदामुद्यम्य वेगेन राजानमभ्यधावत ३८। खड्गेन तीक्ष्णधारेण तस्य बाहुं विचिच्छिदे । सगदं पतितं भूमौ सांगदं कटकान्वितम् ३९। महारावं ततः कृत्वा वज्रस्फोटसमं तदा । रुधिरेणापि दिग्धांगो धावमानो महाहवे ४०। क्रोधेन महताविष्टो ग्रस्तुमिच्छति भूपतिम् । दुर्निवार्यः समायातः पार्श्वं तस्य च भूपतेः ४१। नहुषेण महाशक्त्या ताडितो हृदि दानवः । पतितः सहसा भूमौ वज्राहत इवाचलः ४२। तस्मिन्दैत्ये गते भूमावितरे दानवा गताः । विविशुः कति दुर्गेषु कति पातालमाश्रिताः ४३। देवाः प्रहर्षमाजग्मुर्गंधर्वाः सिद्धचारणाः । हते तस्मिन्महापापे नहुषेण महात्मना ४४। तस्मिन्हते दैत्यवरे महाहवे देवाश्च सर्वे प्रमुदं प्रलेभिरे । तां देवरूपां तपसा प्रवर्द्धितां स आयुपुत्रः प्रतिलभ्य हर्षितः ४५। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे भूमिखंडे वेनोपाख्याने गुरुतीर्थमाहात्म्ये च्यवनचरित्रे नहुषाख्याने पंचदशाधिकशततमोऽध्यायः ११५।
kuṃjala uvāca- tatastvasau saṃyati rājamānaḥ samudyataścāpadharo mahātmā | yathaiva kālaḥ kupitaḥ salokānsaṃhartumaicchattu tathā sudānavān 1| mahāstrajālai ravitejatulyaiḥ sudīptimadbhirnijaghāna dānavān | vāyuryathonmūlayatīha pādapāṃstathaiva rājā nijaghāna dānavān 2| vāyuryathā meghacayaṃ ca divyaṃ saṃcālayetsvena balena tejasā | tathā sa rājā asurānmadotkaṭānanāśayadbāṇavaraiḥ sutīkṣṇaiḥ 3| na śekurdānavāḥ sarve bāṇavarṣaṃ mahātmanaḥ | mṛtāḥ keciddrutāḥ kecitkecinnaṣṭā mahāhavāt 4| sūta uvāca- mahātejaṃ mahāprājñaṃ mahādānavanāśanam | cukrodha huṃḍo duṣṭātmā dṛṣṭvā taṃ nṛpanaṃdanam 5| sthito gatvedamābhāṣya tiṣṭhatiṣṭheti cāhave | tvāmadya ca nayiṣyāmi āyuputra yamāṃtikam 6| nahuṣa uvāca- sthitosmi samare paśya tvāmahaṃ haṃtumāgataḥ | ahaṃ tvāṃ tu haniṣyāmi dānavaṃ pāpacetanam 7| ityuktvā dhanurādāya bāṇānagniśikhopamān | chatreṇa dhriyamāṇena śuśubhe so'pi saṃyuge 8| iṃdrasya sārathiṃ divyaṃ mātaliṃ vākyamabravīt | vāhayatu rathaṃ me'dya huṃḍasya sammukhaṃ bhavān 9| ityuktastena vīreṇa mātalirlaghuvikramaḥ | turagāṃścodayāmāsa mahāvātajavopamān 10| utpetuśca tato vāhā haṃsā iva yathāṃbare | chatreṇa iṃduvarṇena rathenāpi patākinā 11| nabhastalaṃ tu saṃprāpya yathā sūryo virājate | āyuputrastathā saṃkhye tejasā vikrameṇa tu 12| atha huṃḍo rathastho'pi rājamānaḥ svatejasā | sarvāyudhaiśca saṃyuktastadvadvīravrate sthitaḥ 13| ubhayorvīrayoryuddhaṃ devavismayakārakam | tadā āsīnmahāprājña dāruṇaṃ bhītidāyakam 14| subāṇairniśitaistīkṣṇaiḥ kaṃkapatraiḥ śilīmukhaiḥ | huṃḍena tāḍito rājā subāhvoraṃtare tadā 15| subhāle paṃcabhirbāṇairviddhaḥ kruddho'bhavattadā | saviddhastu tadā bāṇairadhikaṃ śuśubhe nṛpaḥ 16| sāruṇaḥ karamālābhirudayaṃśca divākaraḥ | rudhireṇa tu digdhāṃgo hemabāṇaistanusthitaiḥ 17| sūryavacchobhate rājā pūrvakālasya cāṃbare | dṛṣṭvā tu pauruṣaṃ tasya dānavaṃ vākyamabravīt 18| tiṣṭhatiṣṭha kṣaṇaṃ daitya paśya me lāghavaṃ punaḥ | ityuktvā tu raṇe daityaṃ jaghāna daśabhiḥ śaraiḥ 19| mukhe bhāle hatastena mūrcchito nipapāta ha | paśyāmānaiḥ surairdivyai rathopari mahābalaḥ 20| devaiśca cāraṇaiḥ siddhaiḥ kṛtaḥ śabdaḥ suharṣajaḥ | jayajayeti rājeṃdra śaṃkhāndadhmuḥ punaḥ punaḥ 21| sakolāhalaśabdastu tumalo devateritaḥ | karṇaraṃdhramāviveśa huṃḍasya mūrchitasya ca 22| śrutvā sadhanurādāya bāṇamāśīviṣopamam | sthīyatāṃ sthīyatāṃ yuddhe na mṛtosmi tvayā hataḥ 23| ityuktvā punarutthāya lāghavena samanvitaḥ | ekaviṃśatibhirbāṇairnahuṣaṃ cāhanatpunaḥ 24| ekena muṣṭimadhye tu caturbhirbāhumadhyataḥ | caturbhiśca mahāśvāṃśca chatramekena tena vai 25| paṃcabhirmātaliṃ viddhvā rathanīḍaṃ tu saptabhiḥ | dhvajadaṃḍaṃ tribhistīkṣṇairdānavaḥ śikhipatribhiḥ 26| ādānaṃ tu nidānaṃ tu lakṣamokṣaṃ durātmanaḥ | lāghavaṃ tasya saṃdṛṣṭvā devatā vismayaṃgatāḥ 27| tasya pauruṣamāpaśya sa rājā dānavottamam | śūrosi kṛtavidyosi dhīrosi raṇapaṃḍitaḥ 28| ityukvā dānavaṃ taṃ tu dhanurvisphārya bhūpatiḥ | mārgaṇairdaśabhistaṃ tu vivyādha laghuvikramaḥ 29| tribhirdhvajaṃ praciccheda sa papāta dharātale | turagānpātayāmāsa caturbhistasya sāyakaiḥ 30| ekena chatraṃ tasyāpi cakarta laghuvikramaḥ | daśabhiḥ sārathistasya preṣito yamamaṃdiram 31| daṃśanaṃ daśabhiśchittvā śaraiśca vidalīkṛtaḥ | sarvāṃgeṣu ca triṃśadbhirvivyādha danujeśvaram 32| hatāśvo viratho jāto bāṇapāṇirdhanurdharaḥ | abhyadhāvatsa vegena varṣayanniśitaiḥ śaraiḥ 33| khaḍgacarmadharo daityo rājānaṃ tamadhāvata | dhāvamānasya huṃḍasya khaḍgaṃ ciccheda bhūpatiḥ 34| kṣuraprairniśitairbāṇaiścarma ciccheda bhūpatiḥ | atha huṃḍaḥ sa duṣṭātmā samālokya samaṃtataḥ 35| jagrāha mudgaraṃ tūrṇaṃ mumoca laghuvikramaḥ | vajravegaṃ samāyāṃtaṃ dadṛśe nṛpatistadā 36| mudgaraṃ svanavaṃtaṃ cāpātayadaṃbarāttataḥ | daśabhirniśitairbāṇaiḥ kṣurapraiśca svavikramāt 37| mudgaraṃ patitaṃ dṛṣṭvā daśakhaṇḍamayaṃ bhuvi | gadāmudyamya vegena rājānamabhyadhāvata 38| khaḍgena tīkṣṇadhāreṇa tasya bāhuṃ vicicchide | sagadaṃ patitaṃ bhūmau sāṃgadaṃ kaṭakānvitam 39| mahārāvaṃ tataḥ kṛtvā vajrasphoṭasamaṃ tadā | rudhireṇāpi digdhāṃgo dhāvamāno mahāhave 40| krodhena mahatāviṣṭo grastumicchati bhūpatim | durnivāryaḥ samāyātaḥ pārśvaṃ tasya ca bhūpateḥ 41| nahuṣeṇa mahāśaktyā tāḍito hṛdi dānavaḥ | patitaḥ sahasā bhūmau vajrāhata ivācalaḥ 42| tasmindaitye gate bhūmāvitare dānavā gatāḥ | viviśuḥ kati durgeṣu kati pātālamāśritāḥ 43| devāḥ praharṣamājagmurgaṃdharvāḥ siddhacāraṇāḥ | hate tasminmahāpāpe nahuṣeṇa mahātmanā 44| tasminhate daityavare mahāhave devāśca sarve pramudaṃ pralebhire | tāṃ devarūpāṃ tapasā pravarddhitāṃ sa āyuputraḥ pratilabhya harṣitaḥ 45| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe bhūmikhaṃḍe venopākhyāne gurutīrthamāhātmye cyavanacaritre nahuṣākhyāne paṃcadaśādhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 115|
English translation
Kuñjala said :
1. Then that great soul, holding a bow, ready to fight and shining in the battle, like Death that was angry and desired to destroy the worlds, desired to kill the great demons.
2-3. He killed the demons with a number of mighty weapons resembling the sun’s lustre and very bright. As the wind uproots trees, he killed the demons. As the wind shakes the divine mass of clouds, the king destroyed theintoxicated demons with very sharp excellent arrows.
4. All the demons could not (stand) the shower of arrows of (i.e. discharged by) the magnanimous one. Some died, some fled, some escaped from the great war.
Sūta said :
5. Seeing the prince of a great lustre, very intelligent, and destroyer of great demons, the wicked-minded Huṇḍa became angry.
6. Going (near him) he stood thereafter saying these words: “Stop, stop, O son of Āyu, I shall today take you to Yama .”
Nahuṣa said :
7. I am standing in the battlefield. See, I have come to kill you. I shall kill you, a wicked-minded demon.
8-9 Speaking thus, he, taking a bow and arrows like the flames of fire, shone in the battle with an umbrella being held (over his head). He said these words to Mātali , the charioteer of Indra : “Today you drive my chariot in front of Huṇḍa.”
10-12. Thus addressed by the hero, the quick-footed Mātali drove the horses having the speed of a strong wind. Then the horses jumped as swans would fly in the sky. Reaching the sky with the chariot having a flag and with an umbrella having the moon’s colour, the son of Āyu shone in the battle with lustre and valour as the sun shines (in the sky).
13-18a. Huṇḍa too, even when he remained in the chariot, shone with his own lustre, was equipped with all weapons and remained in a hero’s vow. O you very wise one, at that time the battle between the two heroes caused amazement to the gods, was fierce and caused fear. At that time Huṇḍa struck the king between his two strong arms with well-whetted, sharp, excellent arrows with heron’s feathers attached to them and with darts. When pierced on his large forehead with five arrows he got angry. The king wounded with arrows shone more at that time, like the rising ruddy sun with clusters of rays. With the golden arrows stuck into his body and with his body smeared with blood, the king shone like the sun in the sky in the morning.
18b-20. Seeing his valour, he said (these) words to the demon: “O demon, wait, wait for a moment; (just) see my dexterity.” Thus speaking to the demon in the battle, he struck him with ten arrows. He struck him on the face, on the forehead. Due to that the very mighty (demon) fainted and fell down on the chariot, when gods from heaven were seeing.
21-24. Gods and bards and siddhas gave out cry of victory with joy. (They cried:) “Victory, victory, to you, O lord of kings;” (and) they blew conches repeatedly. That tumultuous noise made by the gods entered the cavities of the ears of Huṇḍa who had fainted. Hearing it, he took his bow and an arrow like a snake, and saying, “Wait, wait, I am not dead though you have struck me in the battle”, he endowed with quickness, struck Nahuṣa with twenty-one arrows.
25-27. The demon pierced Nahuṣa with one arrow into his fist, with four sharp arrows between his arms; (pierced) his great horses with four sharp arrows, his umbrella with one arrow; (pierced) Mātali with five sharp arrows, the interior of the chariot with seven sharp arrows and the staff of the flag with three sharp arrows. Seeing the wicked one’s seizing and aiming and discharging (the arrow) and his quickness, the deities were amazed.
28. Seeing his valour, the king (said to) the best demon; “You are brave, you are learned, you are wise, and are clever in fighting.”
29. Speaking thus to the demon, the king, of sharp valour, stretched his bow, and pierced him with ten arrows.
30-33a. With three arrows he cut off the flag and it fell on the ground. With four arrows he knocked down his horses. The king of sharp valour cut off his umbrella; and with ten arrows sent his charioteer to Yama’s abode. Having cut off his armour with ten arrows, he split him. He pierced the lord of demons in all his limbs with thirty arrows. With his horses killed, he became chariotless.
33b-38. The archer, with arrows in his hand, and showering (Nahuṣa) with sharp arrows, ran to him. That demon holding a sword and a shield, ran to the king. The king cut off the sword of Huṇḍa, who was (thus) running (to the king). The king cut off his shield with sharp arrows with sharp horse-shoe-shaped heads. Then that wicked-minded Huṇḍa, seeing around, took a mallet and he of sharp valour, quickly discharged it. The king then saw it coming with the speed of the thunderbolt, and by his valour he caused to fall down that mallet making a sound, with ten sharp arrows and with sharp horse-shoe-shaped arrows. Seeing the mallet, fallen in ten pieces on the ground, he raised his mace and ran to the king.
39-43. With a sharp-edged sword he cut off his arm, which fell down on the ground, with the mace, armlets and bracelets. Then, making a great sound like the bursting of the thunderbolt, and with his body smeared with blood and running in the great battle, he, full of great anger, desired to destroy the king. He, the irresistible one, came near the king. The demon, struck on his chest by Nahuṣa with a missile called Śakti , suddenly fell on the ground like a mountain struck with the thunderbolt. When that demon fell on the ground, other demons went (i.e. fled) away. Some entered inaccessible places, some resorted to the other world.
44-45. When the magnanimous Nahuṣa had killed that great sinner, gods, gandharvas , siddhas and cāraṇas became very joyful. When the great demon was killed in the great war, all gods became very joyful; (and) Āyu’s son (i.e. Nahuṣa) having obtained her, of a divine form and thriving with penance, became glad.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 43152, revision 335684 (2022-04-12T19:04:40Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365208.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.