10 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 10
tatah thereafter; agni-varnah —as brilliant as fire; isavah —arrows;
utpetuh—released; siirya-mandalat—from the sun globe; yatha—just
as; mayiikha-sandohah—beams of light; na adrsyanta—could not be
seen; purah—the three residences; yatah—because of this (being
covered by the arrows of Lord Siva).
TRANSLATION
The arrows released by Lord Siva appeared like fiery beams
emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential
airplanes, which could then no longer be seen.
TEXT 59
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MAA ACT AT: RITASHITT 4S!
taih sprsta vyasavah sarve
nipetuh sma puraukasah
tan dniya mahd-yogi
mayah kipa-rase *ksipat
taih—by those (fiery arrows); sprstah—being attacked or being
touched; vyasavah—without life; sarve—all the demons; nipetuh —fell
down; sma—formerly; pura-okasah—being the inhabitants of the
above-mentioned three residential airplanes; tan—all of them; aniya—
bringing; mahé-yogi—the great mystic; mayah—Maya Danava; kipa-
rase—in the well of nectar (created by the great mystic Maya); aksipat—
put.
TRANSLATION
Attacked by Lord Siva’s golden arrows, all the demoniac inhabi-
tants of those three dwellings lost their lives and fell down. Then
the great mystic Maya Danava dropped the demons into a nectarean
well that he had created.
PURPORT
The asuras are generally extremely powerful because of their mystic
yogic power. However, as Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (6.47):
