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Chapter 68

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व्यास उवाच- बलं च निहतं दृष्ट्वा नमुचिं च स्वकाग्रजम्। मुचिस्तत्राब्रवीद्वाक्यं ज्येष्ठो मे सूदितस्त्वया१। परोक्षेणाधुना त्वां च शरैर्नेष्यामि भास्करिम्। तमब्रवीन्महातेजाः शक्रः सर्वसुरार्चितः२। भ्रातुस्ते धर्मपंथानमिदानीं लप्स्यसे ध्रुवम्। वह्नेरुष्णमविज्ञाय प्रमोहाच्छलभा यथा३। सहसा प्रविशंत्यग्निं तथा मां योद्धुमिच्छसि। एवं ब्रुवाणमिन्द्रं च जघान विशिखैस्त्रिभिः४। स चिच्छेद त्रिभिर्बाणैः शक्रः परपुरंजयः। ततो जघान दशभिरिंद्रमैरावणं त्रिभिः५। सप्तभिर्मातलिं छित्वा नादैरुच्चैर्ननाद ह। शक्रं प्रति पुनर्दैत्यो भ्रामयामास संभ्रमात्६। आयसीं तां गदां कोपान्महाबलपराक्रमः। ततस्तु लाघवाच्छक्रो जघान कुलिशेन हि७। भिदुरस्यावपातेन गतासुर्निपपात ह। दनुजस्य प्रपातेन संचचाल वसुंधरा८। देवाः प्रचक्रुर्नृत्यानि दानवा विप्रदुद्रुवुः९। इति श्रीपाद्मपुराणे प्रथमे सृष्टिखंडे मुचिवधोनामाष्टषष्टितमोऽध्यायः६८।

vyāsa uvāca- balaṃ ca nihataṃ dṛṣṭvā namuciṃ ca svakāgrajam| mucistatrābravīdvākyaṃ jyeṣṭho me sūditastvayā1| parokṣeṇādhunā tvāṃ ca śarairneṣyāmi bhāskarim| tamabravīnmahātejāḥ śakraḥ sarvasurārcitaḥ2| bhrātuste dharmapaṃthānamidānīṃ lapsyase dhruvam| vahneruṣṇamavijñāya pramohācchalabhā yathā3| sahasā praviśaṃtyagniṃ tathā māṃ yoddhumicchasi| evaṃ bruvāṇamindraṃ ca jaghāna viśikhaistribhiḥ4| sa ciccheda tribhirbāṇaiḥ śakraḥ parapuraṃjayaḥ| tato jaghāna daśabhiriṃdramairāvaṇaṃ tribhiḥ5| saptabhirmātaliṃ chitvā nādairuccairnanāda ha| śakraṃ prati punardaityo bhrāmayāmāsa saṃbhramāt6| āyasīṃ tāṃ gadāṃ kopānmahābalaparākramaḥ| tatastu lāghavācchakro jaghāna kuliśena hi7| bhidurasyāvapātena gatāsurnipapāta ha| danujasya prapātena saṃcacāla vasuṃdharā8| devāḥ pracakrurnṛtyāni dānavā vipradudruvuḥ9| iti śrīpādmapurāṇe prathame sṛṣṭikhaṃḍe mucivadhonāmāṣṭaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ68|

English translation

Vyāsa said :

1-2a. Seeing Bala and his elder brother Namuci killed (by Indra ), Muci then said (these) words (to Indra:) “You have killed my eldest brother; I shall now invisibly take you with my arrows to the abode of the son of Bhāskara (i.e. Yama ).”

2b-4a. To him, the very lustrous Indra, revered by all gods, said: “You will now certainly follow the path of death of (i.e. traversed by) your brother. You desire to fight with me as the locusts, through folly, suddenly enter fire without realising its heat.”

4b-6a. He struck Indra, who was speaking thus, with three arrows. Indra, the conqueror of the enemies’ cities, cut them off with three arrows. Then he struck Indra with ten arrows, and Airāvaṇa with five. Having pierced Mātali (Indra’s charioteer) with seven (arrows) he roared loudly.

6b-9. Then the demon of great might and valour angrily brandished an iron mace at Indra. Then Indra dexterously struck him with his thunderbolt. Due to the fall of the thunderbolt, he fell down dead. Due to the fall of the demon the earth trembled. The gods danced and the demons ran away.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 45223, revision 334590 (2022-04-06T08:36:22Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc364191.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.