Sṛṣṭi-khaṇḍa · Chapter 70
Sourceव्यास उवाच- ततो देवांतको दैत्यो व्यनदत्समरं प्रति। रणं चकार धर्मेण संदष्टौष्ठपुटो बली१। स गत्वा चाब्रवीद्वाक्यं सर्वलोकविगर्हितं। न जानासि महद्धर्मं दुष्ट मोहाद्यथाक्रमम्२। पापपुण्यप्रयोगेण निग्रहानुग्रहे प्रभुः। अहं च निर्मितो धात्रा करोमि तव शासनम्३। न जानासि यतो धर्मं कालमृत्यु पुरःसरः। न रोगो न जरा कालो न मृत्युर्न च किंकरः४। धर्मात्प्रचलितः कर्मी कष्टं याति दिवानिशम्। उक्तं वसुं महावीर्यं यमं धर्मैकसाक्षिकम्५। स जघान त्रिभिर्बाणैः कालमृत्युसमप्रभैः। प्रचिच्छेद स धर्मात्मा ते त्वन्यैर्विशिखैस्त्रिभिः६। ततस्तूच्चैः शरैः प्राज्यैर्युगांतानलसप्रभैः। निजघान यमं संख्ये स चिच्छेद शरैः शरान्७। एतस्मिन्नंतरे क्रुद्धौ परस्परजयैषिणौ। जघ्नतुः समरेन्योन्यं महाबलपराक्रमौ८। अहोरात्रं तयोर्युद्धमवर्त्तत सुदारुणम्। एतस्मिन्नन्तरे क्रुद्धः शक्त्या प्रशमनं रुषा९। बिभेद दैत्यशार्दूलो ह्यहंकारयुतो बली। तामेवाथ रुषा धर्मो गृहीत्वा शक्तिकां द्रुतं१०। निजघान तयैवामुंस्तनयोरंतरे भृशम्। स विह्वलित सर्वांगो मुखादागतशोणितः११। ततः क्रुद्धो महातेजा धृत्वा दंडं सुदारुणम्। अमोघं पातयामास तस्य दैत्यस्य विग्रहे१२। साश्वं रथं तथा सूतं योद्धारं शस्त्रसंचयम्। चकार भस्मसात्तं च शमनः क्रोधमूर्च्छितः१३। पतिते च तथा दैत्ये दुर्धर्षो नाम दानवः। शमनं शूलहस्तस्तु प्रदुद्राव जिघांसया१४। शूलहस्तं समायांतं बडवानलसन्निभम्। आससाद रणे मृत्युः शक्तिहस्तोतिनिर्भयः१५। स च दृष्ट्वाऽसुरो मृत्युं शूलेनैव जघान ह। शक्तिं चैव ततो मृत्युः प्रचिक्षेप रणाजिरे१६। संदह्य सहसा शूलं वह्निकूटसमप्रभम्। दैत्यस्य हृदयं भित्वा गता सा च धरातलम्१७। सरथः स पपातोर्व्यां शक्तिजर्जरविग्रहः। अथान्यो दुर्मुखो मृत्युं कृष्टचापो महाबलः१८। खड्गचर्मधरः कालो रथ एव गतोभवत्। दृष्ट्वा तं विशिखैः प्राज्यैर्जघान स यमं रणे१९। स चाप्लत्य रथाद्देवो ह्यसिना च सकुंडलम्। शिरश्चिच्छेद सहसा पातयित्वा च भूतले२०। हतशेषं बलं सर्वं प्रदुद्राव दिशो दश२१। इति श्रीपाद्मपुराणे प्रथमे सृष्टिखंडे देवांतकर्दुर्धर्षदुर्मुखवधोनाम सप्ततिमोऽध्यायः७०।
vyāsa uvāca- tato devāṃtako daityo vyanadatsamaraṃ prati| raṇaṃ cakāra dharmeṇa saṃdaṣṭauṣṭhapuṭo balī1| sa gatvā cābravīdvākyaṃ sarvalokavigarhitaṃ| na jānāsi mahaddharmaṃ duṣṭa mohādyathākramam2| pāpapuṇyaprayogeṇa nigrahānugrahe prabhuḥ| ahaṃ ca nirmito dhātrā karomi tava śāsanam3| na jānāsi yato dharmaṃ kālamṛtyu puraḥsaraḥ| na rogo na jarā kālo na mṛtyurna ca kiṃkaraḥ4| dharmātpracalitaḥ karmī kaṣṭaṃ yāti divāniśam| uktaṃ vasuṃ mahāvīryaṃ yamaṃ dharmaikasākṣikam5| sa jaghāna tribhirbāṇaiḥ kālamṛtyusamaprabhaiḥ| praciccheda sa dharmātmā te tvanyairviśikhaistribhiḥ6| tatastūccaiḥ śaraiḥ prājyairyugāṃtānalasaprabhaiḥ| nijaghāna yamaṃ saṃkhye sa ciccheda śaraiḥ śarān7| etasminnaṃtare kruddhau parasparajayaiṣiṇau| jaghnatuḥ samarenyonyaṃ mahābalaparākramau8| ahorātraṃ tayoryuddhamavarttata sudāruṇam| etasminnantare kruddhaḥ śaktyā praśamanaṃ ruṣā9| bibheda daityaśārdūlo hyahaṃkārayuto balī| tāmevātha ruṣā dharmo gṛhītvā śaktikāṃ drutaṃ10| nijaghāna tayaivāmuṃstanayoraṃtare bhṛśam| sa vihvalita sarvāṃgo mukhādāgataśoṇitaḥ11| tataḥ kruddho mahātejā dhṛtvā daṃḍaṃ sudāruṇam| amoghaṃ pātayāmāsa tasya daityasya vigrahe12| sāśvaṃ rathaṃ tathā sūtaṃ yoddhāraṃ śastrasaṃcayam| cakāra bhasmasāttaṃ ca śamanaḥ krodhamūrcchitaḥ13| patite ca tathā daitye durdharṣo nāma dānavaḥ| śamanaṃ śūlahastastu pradudrāva jighāṃsayā14| śūlahastaṃ samāyāṃtaṃ baḍavānalasannibham| āsasāda raṇe mṛtyuḥ śaktihastotinirbhayaḥ15| sa ca dṛṣṭvā'suro mṛtyuṃ śūlenaiva jaghāna ha| śaktiṃ caiva tato mṛtyuḥ pracikṣepa raṇājire16| saṃdahya sahasā śūlaṃ vahnikūṭasamaprabham| daityasya hṛdayaṃ bhitvā gatā sā ca dharātalam17| sarathaḥ sa papātorvyāṃ śaktijarjaravigrahaḥ| athānyo durmukho mṛtyuṃ kṛṣṭacāpo mahābalaḥ18| khaḍgacarmadharaḥ kālo ratha eva gatobhavat| dṛṣṭvā taṃ viśikhaiḥ prājyairjaghāna sa yamaṃ raṇe19| sa cāplatya rathāddevo hyasinā ca sakuṃḍalam| śiraściccheda sahasā pātayitvā ca bhūtale20| hataśeṣaṃ balaṃ sarvaṃ pradudrāva diśo daśa21| iti śrīpādmapurāṇe prathame sṛṣṭikhaṃḍe devāṃtakardurdharṣadurmukhavadhonāma saptatimo'dhyāyaḥ70|
English translation
Vyāsa said :
1-5a. Then the demon Devāntaka roared to fight. He, biting his lips, fought with Yama . Having gone (to the battlefield) he said the words condemned by all people: “O wicked one, through folly, you do not know the supreme dharma in its proper order. By using one’s sin and merit, it is the master that curbs or favours one. I am created by the Creator (i.e. Brahmā ). I shall correct you, since, you, heading towards death, do not know the dharma. Disease, old age, or a slave—none of these is (the cause of) death. A person who is engaged in work, but who has deviated from dharma, becomes unhappy day and night.”
5b-6. He struck, with three arrows, powerful like death, god Yama, who was very mighty, whose only witness was dharma, and who was thus addressed by him; but with three other arrows the righteous one cut them off.
7. Then in the battle he (i.e. Devāntaka) powerfully struck Yama with many arrows, lustrous like the fire at the end of the world. He cut off (these) arrows with (his) arrows.
8. In the meanwhile (i.e. at that time) the two, who possessed great power and valour, who were angry, and who desired to conquer each other struck each other in the battle.
9-11. That very terrible fight between the two continued day and night. Then, the wrathful, best demon, who was possessed of pride and was powerful, angrily hit Yama with a (missile called) śakti Then Yama quickly took up the same śakti and with it powerfully struck (the demon) between his breasts. His entire body was distressed, and blood was coming (out) of his body.
12. Then the very lustrous and angry Yama held a very terrible unfailing staff and hit it on the body of that demon.
13. Yama, filled with anger, reduced the warrior, along with his horses, his chariot, his charioteer, his collection of missiles, to ashes.
14. Then, when that demon dropped like that, a demon, named Durdharṣa , with a lance in his hand, rushed at Yama to kill him.
15. Yama, with a śakti in his hand and extremely fearless, afflicted him, who approached him with a spike in his hand and who resembled the submarine fire, in the battle.
16-18a. That demon, seeing Yama, struck him with a lance only. Then Yama discharged a śakti in the battle. Suddenly burning the lance (thrown by the demon), which resembled a fiery iron-spear, it pierced the chest of the demon and went down to the ground. With his body shattered by the śakti, he fell down with his chariot.
18b-19a. Then another demon named Durmukha , who was very mighty, who had stretched his bow and who had held a sword and a shield, seated in his chariot only, went (i.e. rushed at) Yama.
19b-21. Seeing Yama, he struck him with many arrows in the battle. That god, jumping from the chariot, cut off his head with the ear-rings, and suddenly made him drop on the ground. The army of the demons, that escaped being killed, ran in the ten directions.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 14255, revision 334592 (2022-04-06T08:39:08Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc364193.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.