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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 13]
prāg-udīcīm diśam tūrṇam praviṣṭo nṛpa mānasam
nabhaḥ—to the sky; gataḥ—going; diśaḥ—to the directions; sar- vāḥ—all; sahasra-akṣaḥ—Indra, who is endowed with one thousand eyes; viśāmpate—O King; prāk-udīcīm—to the northeast; diśam— direction; tūrṇam—very speedily; praviṣṭaḥ—entered; nṛpa—O King; mānasam—the lake known as Mānasa-sarovara.
TRANSLATION
O King, Indra first fled to the sky, but there also he saw the woman of personified sin chasing him. This witch followed him wherever he went. At last he very quickly went to the northeast and entered the Mānasa-sarovara Lake.
TEXT 15
स अवसत्पुष्करनातन्तन्तु-
नलब्धभोगो यदिहाभिद्तः ।
वर्षाणि साहस्रमलक्षितोऽन्तः
सश्चिन्तयन् ब्रह्मवधाद् विमोक्षम् ॥१५॥
sa āvasat puṣkara-nāla-tantūn
alabdha-bhogo yad ihāgni-dūtaḥ
varṣāṇi sāhasram alakṣito 'ntaḥ
sañcintayan brahma-vadhād vimokṣam
saḥ—he (Indra); āvasat—lived; puṣkara-nāla-tantūn—in the net- work of the fibers of a lotus stem; alabdha-bhogaḥ—not getting any ma- terial comfort (practically starving for all material needs); yat—which; iha—here; agni-dūtaḥ—the fire-god messenger; varṣāṇi—celestial years; sāhasram—one thousand; alakṣitaḥ—invisible; antaḥ—within his heart; sañcintayan—always thinking of; brahma-vadhāt—from the killing of a brāhmaṇa; vimokṣam—liberation.