258
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 18]
TRANSLATION
When Indra saw that actually they were his devoted followers, he said to them: If you are all my brothers, you have nothing more to fear from me.
TEXT 65
न ममार दितेर्गर्भः श्रीनिवासानुकम्पया । बहुधा कुलिशक्षुष्णो द्रौण्यस्त्रेण यथा भवान् ॥६५॥
na mamāra diter garbhaḥ śrīnivāsānukampayā bahudhā kuliśa-kṣuṇṇo drauṇy-astreṇa yathā bhavān
na —not;  mamāra —died;  diteḥ —of Diti;  garbhaḥ —the embryo;  śrīnivāsa —of Lord Viṣṇu, the resting place of the goddess of fortune;  anukampayā —by the mercy;  bahu-dhā —into many pieces;  kuliśa —by the thunderbolt;  kṣuṇṇaḥ —cut;  drauṇi —of Aśvatthāmā;  astreṇa —by the weapon;  yathā —just as;  bhavān —you.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parikṣit, you were burned by the brahmāstra of Aśvatthāmā, but when Lord Kṛṣṇa entered the womb of your mother, you were saved. Similarly, although the one embryo was cut into forty-nine pieces by the thunderbolt of Indra, they were all saved by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TEXTS 66-67
सकृदिष्ट्वादिपुरुषं पुरुषो याति साम्यताम् । संवत्सरं किञ्चिद्दूनं दित्या यद्धरिरिचितः ॥६६॥ सजूरिन्द्रेण पञ्चाशद्देवास्ते मरुतोऽभवन् । व्यपोह्य मातृदोषं ते हरिणा सोमपाः कृताः ॥६७॥