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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 12]
iva —as if;  jagat-trayam —the three worlds;  ati-mātra —very high;  mahā-kāyaḥ —whose great body;  ākṣipan —shaking;  tarasā —with great force;  girīn —the mountains;  giri-rāṭ —the Himalaya Mountains;  pāda-cārī —moving on foot;  iva —as if;  padbhyām —by his feet;  nirjarayan —crushing;  mahīm —the surface of the world;  jagrāsa —swallowed;  saḥ —he;  samāsādya —reaching;  vajriṇam —Indra, who carries the thunder-bolt;  saha-vāhanam —with his carrier, the elephant.
TRANSLATION
Vṛtrāsura was very powerful in physical strength and influence. He placed his lower jaw on the ground and his upper jaw in the sky. His mouth became very deep, like the sky itself, and his tongue resembled a large serpent. With his fearful, deathlike teeth, he seemed to be trying to devour the entire universe. Thus assuming a gigantic body, the great demon Vṛtrāsura shook even the mountains and began crushing the surface of the earth with his legs, as if he were the Himalayas walking about. He came before Indra and swallowed him and Airāvata, his carrier, just as a big python might swallow an elephant.
TEXT 30
वृत्रप्रस्तं तमालोक्य सप्रजापतयः सुराः ।
हा कष्टमिति निर्विष्णारचुक्रुशुः समहर्षयः ॥३०॥
vṛtra-grastam tam ālokya saprajāpatayaḥ surāḥ hā kaṣṭam iti nirviṇṇāś cukruśuḥ samaharṣayaḥ
vṛtra-grastam —swallowed by Vṛtrāsura;  tam —him (Indra);  ālokya —seeing;  sa-prajāpatayaḥ —with Lord Brahmā and other  pra-jāpatis ;  surāḥ —all the demigods;  hā —alas;  kaṣṭam —what a tribulation;  iti —thus;  nirviṇṇāḥ —being very morose;  cukruśuḥ —lamented;  sa-mahā-ṛṣayaḥ —with the great sages.