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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 12]
saḥ —he (King Indra);  tu —however;  vṛtrasya —of Vṛtrāsura;  parigham —the iron club;  karam —his hand;  ca —and;  karabha-upamam —as strong as the trunk of an elephant;  ciccheda —cut to pieces;  yugapat —simultaneously;  devaḥ —Lord Indra;  vajreṇa —with the thunderbolt;  śata-parvaṇā —having one hundred joints.
TRANSLATION
With his thunderbolt named Śataparvan, Indra simultaneously cut to pieces Vṛtrāsura's club and his remaining hand.
TEXT 26
दोभ्यामुत्कृतमूलाभ्यां बभौ रक्तस्रवोऽसुरः । छिन्नपक्षो यथा गोत्रः खाद् भ्रष्टो वज्रिणा हतः ॥२६॥
dorbhyām utkṛtta-mūlābhyām   babhau rakta-sravo 'suraḥ   chinna-pakṣo yathā gotraḥ   khād bhraṣṭo vajriṇā hataḥ
dorbhyām —from the two arms;  utkṛtta-mūlābhyām —cut from the very root;  babhau —was;  rakta-sravaḥ —profusely discharging blood;  asuraḥ —Vṛtrāsura;  chinna-pakṣaḥ —whose wings are cut;  yathā —just as;  gotraḥ —a mountain;  khāt —from the sky;  bhraṣṭaḥ —falling;  vajriṇā —by Indra, the carrier of the thunderbolt;  hataḥ —struck.
TRANSLATION
Vṛtrāsura, bleeding profusely, his two arms cut off at their roots, looked very beautiful, like a flying mountain whose wings have been cut to pieces by Indra.
PURPORT
It appears from the statement of this verse that sometimes there are flying mountains and that their wings are cut by the thunderbolt of Indra. Vṛtrāsura's huge body resembled such a mountain.