Text 13] King Indra Annihilates the Demons
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TRANSLATION
Since Mahārāja Bali's rebukes were truthful, King Indra did not at all become sorry, just as an elephant beated by its driver's rod does not become agitated.
TEXT 12
प्राहरत् कुलिशं तस्मा अमोघं परमर्दनः । सयानो न्यपतद् भूमौ छिन्नपक्ष इवाचलः ॥१२॥
prāharat kuliśam tasmā amogham para-mardanaḥ sayāno nyapatad bhūmau chinna-pakṣa ivācalaḥ
prāharat—inflicted; kuliśam—thunderbolt scepter; tasmai—unto him (Bali Mahārāja); amogham—infallibie; para-mardanaḥ—Indra, who is expert in defeating the enemy; sa-yānaḥ—with his airplane; nyapatat—fell down; bhūmau—on the ground; chinna-pakṣaḥ—whose wings have been taken away; iva—like; acalaḥ—a mountain.
TRANSLATION
When Indra, the defeater of enemies, released his infallible thunderbolt scepter at Bali Mahārāja with a desire to kill him, Bali Mahārāja indeed fell to the ground with his airplane, like a mountain with its wings cut off.
PURPORT
In many descriptions in Vedic literature it is found that mountains also fly in the sky with wings. When such mountains are dead, they fall to the ground, where they stay as very large dead bodies.
TEXT 13
सखायं पतितं दृष्ट्वा जम्भो बलिसखः सुहृत् । अभ्ययात् सौहृदं सख्युर्हतस्यापि समाचरन् ॥१३॥