108 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 9
TRANSLATION

After Visvaripa was killed, his father, Tvasta, performed
ritualistic ceremonies to kill Indra. He offered oblations in the
sacrificial fire, saying, ‘‘O enemy of Indra, flourish to kill your
enemy without delay.”

PURPORT

There was some defect in Tvasta’s chanting of the mantra because he
chanted it long instead of short, and therefore the meaning changed.
Tvasta intended to chant the word indra-satro, meaning, “O enemy of
Indra.” In this mantra, the word indra is in the possessive case (sasthi),
and the word indra-Satro is called a tat-purusa compound (tatpurusa-
samésa). Unfortunately, instead of chanting the mantra short, Tvasta
chanted it long, and its meaning changed from “the enemy of Indra” to
“Indra, who is an enemy.” Consequently instead of an enemy of Indra’s,
there emerged the body of Vrtrasura, of whom Indra was the enemy.

TEXT 12
qaraerireagierdt | ahaa: |
SUT HT HMA FMTTHT FAT 1122!
athanvaharya-pacanad
utthito ghora-darsanah
krtanta iva lokanam
yuganta-samaye yatha

atha—thereafter; anvahdrya-pacanat—from the fire known as An-
vaharya; utthitah—arisen; ghora-darsanah—appearing very fearful;
krtantah—personified annihilation; iva—like; lokadndm—of all the
planets; yuga-anta—of the end of the millennium; samaye—at the
time; yatha—just as.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter, from the southern side of the sacrificial fire known
as Anvaharya came a fearful personality who looked like the
destroyer of the entire creation at the end of the millennium.
