Text 16] Battle Between the Demigods and Vrtrasura 175

TRANSLATION

My dear King Pariksit, as Rudra, being very angry at Antaka
[Yamaraja] had formerly run toward Antaka to kill him, Indra
angrily and with great force attacked Vrtrasura, who was sur-
rounded by the leaders of the demoniac armies.

TEXT 16
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ANG AAAI TAA FT?

tatah surandm asurai
ranah parama-darunah

treta-mukhe narmadayam
abhavat prathame yuge

tatah—thereafter; suradndm—of the demigods; asuraih—with the
demons; ranah—a great battle; parama-darunah—very fearful: treta-
mukhe—in the beginning of Treta-yuga; narmadayam—on the bank of
the River Narmada; abhavat—took place; prathame—in the first:
yuge—millennium.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter, at the end of Satya-yuga and the beginning of Treta-
yuga, a fierce battle took place between the demigods and the
demons on the bank of the Narmada.

PURPORT

Herein the Narmada does not mean the Narmada River in India. The
five sacred rivers in India—Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada. Kaveri and
Krsnad—are all celestial. Like the Ganges River, the Narmada River also
flows in the higher planetary systems. The battle between the demigods
and the demons took place in the higher planets.

The words prathame yuge mean “‘in the beginning of the first millen-
nium,” that is to say, in the beginning of the Vaivasvata manvantara. In
