Text 35] King Indra Annihilates the Demons 87

PURPORT

Indra’s thunderbolt is invincible, and therefore when Indra saw that it
had returned without doing any injury to Namuci, he was certainly very
much afraid.

TEXT 34

da F Wadi wese: Ta |
pat fafraat ae: Taca: Waar BT el

yena me piirvam adrinam
paksa-cchedah prajatyaye

krto nivisatam bharaih
patattraih patatarn bhuvi

yena—by the same thunderbolt; me—by me; pirvam—formerly;
adrinam—of the mountains; paksa-cchedah—the cutting of the wings;
praja-atyaye —when there was killing of the people in general; krtah—
was done; nivisatam—of those mountains which entered; bharaih—by
the great weight; patattraih—by wings; patatam—falling; bhuvi—on
the ground.

TRANSLATION

Indra thought: Formerly, when many mountains flying in the
sky with wings would fall to the ground and kill people, I cut their
wings with this same thunderbolt.

TEXT 35
anarad awe sat aq fata: |
HY AY gata: TAI: 1341

tapah-sdramayam tvdstram
urtro yena vipatitah
anye capi balopetah

sarvastrair aksata-tvacah

tapah—austerities; sdra-mayam—greatly powerful; tvdstram—per-
formed by Tvasta; vrtrah—Vrtrasura; yena—by which; vipdtitah —was
