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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 11]
TRANSLATION
Those sharp arrows dismayed the enemy soldiers, who became almost unconscious, but various Yakṣas on the battlefield, in a rage against Dhruva Mahārāja, somehow or other collected their weapons and attacked. Just as serpents agitated by Garuḍa rush toward him with upraised hoods, so all the Yakṣa soldiers prepared to overcome Dhruva Mahārāja with their upraised weapons.
TEXT 5
स तान् शक्तैरमिधावतो मृधे 
  निकृत्तबाहूरुशिरोधरोदरान् । 
  निनाय लोकं परमकर्मण्डलं 
  ब्रजन्ति निर्मिद्य यमूर्ध्वरेतसः ॥ ५ ॥
sa tān pṛṣatkair abhidhāvato mṛdhe 
  nikṛtta-bāhūru-śirodharodarān 
  nināya lokam param arka-maṇḍalam 
  vrajanti nirbhidya yam ūrdhva-retasaḥ
saḥ—he (Dhruva Mahārāja); tān—all the Yakṣas; pṛṣatkaiḥ—by his arrows; abhidhāvataḥ—coming forward; mṛdhe—in the battlefield; nikṛtta—being separated; bāhu—arms; ūru—thighs; śiraḥ-dhara—necks; udarān—and bellies; nināya—delivered; lokam—to the planet; param—supreme; arka-maṇḍalam—the sun globe; vrajanti—go; nirbhidya—piercing; yam—to which; ūrdhva-retasaḥ—those who do not discharge semina at any time.
TRANSLATION
When Dhruva Mahārāja saw the Yakṣas coming forward, he immediately took his arrows and cut the enemies to pieces. Separating their arms, legs, heads and bellies from their bodies, he delivered the Yakṣas to the planetary system which is situated above the sun-globe and which is attainable only by first-class brahmacārīs who have never discharged their semina.
PURPORT
To be killed by the Lord or by His devotees is auspicious for non-devotees. The Yakṣas were killed indiscriminately by Dhruva Mahārāja, but they attained the planetary system which was only attainable for brahmacārīs who had never discharged their semina. As the impersonalist