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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 10]
tataḥ —thereafter;  agni-varṇāḥ —as brilliant as fire;  iṣavaḥ —arrows;  utpetuḥ —released;  sūrya-maṇḍalāt —from the sun globe;  yathā —just as;  mayūkha-sandohāḥ —beams of light;  na adṛśyanta —could not be seen;  puraḥ —the three residences;  yataḥ —because of this (being covered by the arrows of Lord Śiva).
TRANSLATION
The arrows released by Lord Śiva appeared like fiery beams emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential airplanes, which could then no longer be seen.
TEXT 59
तैः स्पृष्टा व्यसवः सर्वे निपेतुः स पुरौक्कसः । तानानीय महायोगी मयः कूपरसेऽक्षिपत् ॥५९॥
taiḥ spṛṣṭā vyasavaḥ sarve nipetuḥ sma puraukasaḥ tān ānīya mahā-yogī mayaḥ kūpa-rase 'kṣipat
taiḥ —by those (fiery arrows);  spṛṣṭāḥ —being attacked or being touched;  vyasavaḥ —without life;  sarve —all the demons;  nipetuḥ —fell down;  sma —formerly;  pura-okasaḥ —being the inhabitants of the above-mentioned three residential airplanes;  tān —all of them;  ānīya —bringing;  mahā-yogī —the great mystic;  mayaḥ —Maya Dānava;  kūpa-rase —in the well of nectar (created by the great mystic Maya);  akṣipat —put.
TRANSLATION
Attacked by Lord Śiva's golden arrows, all the demoniac inhabitants of those three dwellings lost their lives and fell down. Then the great mystic Maya Dānava dropped the demons into a nectarean well that he had created.
PURPORT
The  asuras  are generally extremely powerful because of their mystic yogic power. However, as Lord Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (6.47):