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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 11]
killed;  anye —others;  ca —also;  api —indeed;  bala-upetāḥ —very powerful persons;  sarva —all kinds;  astraiḥ —by weapons;  akṣata —without being injured;  tvacaḥ —their skin.
TRANSLATION
Vṛtrāsura was the essence of the austerities undergone by Tvaṣṭā, yet the thunderbolt killed him. Indeed, not only he but also many other stalwart heroes, whose very skin could not be injured even by all kinds of weapons, were killed by the same thunderbolt.
TEXT 36
सोऽयं प्रतिहतो वज्रो मया मुक्तोऽसुरेऽल्पके । नाहं तदाददे दण्डं ब्रह्मतेजोऽप्यकारणम् ॥३६॥
so 'yam pratihato vajro mayā mukto 'sure 'lpake nāham tad ādade daṇḍam brahma-tejo 'py akāraṇam
saḥ ayam —therefore, this thunderbolt;  pratihataḥ —repelled;  vajraḥ —thunderbolt;  mayā —by me;  muktaḥ —released;  asure —unto that demon;  alpake —less important;  na —not;  aham —I;  tat —that;  ādade —hold;  daṇḍam —it is now just like a rod;  brahma-tejaḥ —as powerful as a  brahmāstra ;  api —although;  akāraṇam —now it is useless.
TRANSLATION
But now, although the same thunderbolt has been released against a less important demon, it has been ineffectual. Therefore, although it was as good as a  brahmāstra , it has now become useless like an ordinary rod. I shall therefore hold it no longer.
TEXT 37
इति शक्रं विषीदन्तमाह वागशरीरिणी । नायं शुष्कैरयो नाद्रैर्वधमर्हति दानवः ॥३७॥