The Prem sagurCaturbhujamisra, active 17th century
Religion
The Prem sagur
Caturbhujamisra, active 17th century
Krishna (Hindu deity)
O great king! when Banasoor had thus bawled out, Ookha and Unroodrù,
on seeing and hearing him were greatly disquieted. The Raja’s daughter
being perplexed and terrified, heaving deep sighs, said to her
husband, “O great king! my father has come to attack us with an army
of demons, how will you escape from his hands?” Then Unroodrù was
angry, and said, “Wife! be not at all alarmed, I will destroy the
whole crowd of evil spirits and demons in a second.”
Having thus spoken, Unroodrù Jee read incantations from the Vedas,
and sent for a stone a hundred and eight hands long, and taking it in
his hand, coming forth and joining the army, challenged Banasoor. On
his coming out to give the challenge, Banasoor bent his bow and rushed
upon Unroodrù Jee with his whole forces, just as a swarm of honey
bees would rush upon any one. When the demons began to discharge all
sorts of weapons, Unroodrù Jee was enraged, and began to deal about
several such forcible blows with the stone, that the whole army of
demons became broken and dispersed like the scum upon stagnant pools:
some were killed, others wounded, and all who escaped whole, fled from
the field. Banasoor afterwards rallied them, and renewed the fight.
O great king! all the weapons the demons discharged, fell in every
direction, but not one touched Unroodrù; the weapons, which would
have fallen upon Unroodrù, the edge of the stone cut them off half
way. The strokes of the stone could not be endured, inflicting wounds
like those inflicted by Indrù, the lord of the gods, with a
thunderbolt; heads were split in two by a blow of it, thighs were
broken and arms and bodies cut through. When the battle had lasted
some time, and Banasoor was left alone, the rest of the army having
been cut in pieces, he was astonished, and laid hold of and fastened
Unroodrù with a running noose, saying to himself, “Now shall I
conquer this invincible man?”
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