Viprachitti, Shivi, Sangkaraya, Shangku, Ayashirās, the powerful
Hayagriva, the fierce Ketumān, Ugra, Sogra, Vyagra, Mahāsura, Pushkara,
Pushkala, Sayoshya, Aswapati, Pralhāda, Aswasirā, Kumbha, Sanghrāda,
Gaganapriya, Amihrāda, Hari, Hara, Varāha, Sankara, Ruja, Sharabha,
Salabha, Kupana, Kopana, Kratha, Vrihatkirti, Mahāgihva, Sankukarna,
Mahāswana, Dirghajlbha, Arkanayana, Mriduchāpa, Mriduprya, Vāyu,
Garishtha, Namuchi, Saruvara, Vijvara Mahān, Chakrahanta, Krodhahantā,
Krodhavardhana, Kālaka, Kālakeya, Vritta, Krodha, Virochana, Garishtha,
Varistha, Pralamva, Naraka, Indratāpana, Vātāpi, Valadarpita, Ketumān,
Asiloma, Pulomā, Vāshkala, Pramada, Mada, Vaishika, Kālavadana, Kārala,
Koushika, Shara, Ekāksha, Chadrahā, Rahu, Sanhārāshwa, Mahiswan,
Shataghni, Chakrahasta, Parighapāni, demons with Ashma and Vindipāla
weapons in their hands, with those maces and mortars in their hands,
those with Parashwa weapon, maces, clubs spikes and various other
weapons in their hands, those assuming various dreadful forms, those
assuming the forms of tortoise and fowl, the faces of hares, asses,
camels, boars, dreadful Makaras, jackals, mice, frogs leopards, cats,
elephants, crocodiles, lambs, hogs, kine, buffaloes, Godhas, deer,
Garuda, those having faces like swords and peacocks, those having
armours made of the skin of elephants, some wearing antelope skin, some
covering their bodies with barks, some wearing head-dresses, some
wearing crowns, some wearing Asura ear-rings, some wearing Kiritins,
some with long tufts of hair, some with conch-like necks—thus a
numberless Daityas, wearing various dresses, adorned with diverse
garlands and taking up their burning weapons, surrounded on all sides
the powerful Hrishikesha (81-98). Assuming a highly dreadful form and
grinding them all with his hands and feet the Lord immediately freed the
earth of the demons (99). When he placed his foot-step on the earth, the
sun, and the moon remained on his breast, and when he placed his
foot-step in the sky they lay in his navel (100). And when he placed his
foot-step on a better place (than all these) they lay on the knees of
the highly powerful Vishnu. This has been related by the twice-born ones
(101). Having thus slain all the leading Asuras the Lord Vishnu, the
foremost of all the gods, saved the earth and conferred the celestial
kingdom on the king of gods (102). Thus have I described the dwarf
incarnation of the Great Vishnu. The Brāhmanas, well-read in the Vedas,
describe it as the glorious conduct of Vishnu (103).
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