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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 15]
athārjunaḥ pañca-śateṣu bāhubhir dhanuḥṣu bāṇān yugapat sa sandadhe rāmāya rāmo 'stra-bhṛtāṁ samagraṇīs tāny eka-dhanveṣubhir ācchinat samam
atha—thereafter; arjunaḥ—Kārtavīryārjuna; pañca-śateṣu—five hundred; bāhubhiḥ—with his arms; dhanuḥṣu—on the bows; bāṇān—arrows; yugapat—simultaneously; saḥ—he; sandadhe—fixed; rāmāya—just to kill Lord Paraśurāma; rāmaḥ—Lord Paraśurāma; astra-bhṛtām—of all the soldiers who could use weapons; samagraṇīḥ—the very best; tāni—all the bows of Kārtavīryārjuna; eka-dhanvā—possessing one bow; iṣubhiḥ—the arrows; ācchinat—cut to pieces; samam—with.
TRANSLATION
Then Kārtavīryārjuna, with his one thousand arms, simultaneously fixed arrows on five hundred bows to kill Lord Paraśurāma. But Lord Paraśurāma, the best of fighters, released enough arrows with only one bow to cut to pieces immediately all the arrows and bows in the hands of Kārtavīryārjuna.
TEXT 34
पुनः स्वहस्तैरचलान् मृधेऽङ्गिपा- नुत्क्षिप्य वेगादभिधावतो युधि । भुजान् कुठारेण कठोरनेमिना चिच्छेद रामः प्रसभं त्वहेरिव ॥३४॥
punaḥ sva-hastair acalān mṛdhe 'ṅghripān utkṣipya vegād abhidhāvato yudhi bhujān kuṭhāreṇa kaṭhora-neminā ciccheda rāmaḥ prasabhaṁ tv aher iva
punaḥ—again; sva-hastaiḥ—by his own hands; acalān—hills; mṛdhe—in the battlefield; aṅghripān—trees; utkṣipya—after uprooting; vegāt—with great force; abhidhāvataḥ—of he who was running