PLATE SIX

‘After Indra cut off his two arms, Vrtrasura, bleeding profusely,
assumed a gigantic body which shook even the mountains and began
crushing the surface of the earth with his legs. He came before Indra and
swallowed him and Airavata, his carrier, just as a big python might
swallow an elephant. The Narayana armor protected King Indra, and
with his thunderbolt he pierced through Vrtrasura’s abdomen and came
out. Indra, the killer of the demon Bala, then cut off Vrtrasura’s head,
which was as high as the peak of a mountain. At that time, the living
spark came forth from Vrtrasura’s body and returned home, back to
Godhead. While all the demigods looked on, he entered the transcenden-
tal world to become an associate of Lord Sankarsana.” (pp. 240-246)
