Advertisement
Not a member of Pastebin yet?
Sign Up,
it unlocks many cool features!
- Hearing these words of the Kirata, Arjuna became angry, and attacked him with arrows. The Kirata,
- however, with a glad heart received all those shafts upon himself, repeatedly saying, 'Wretch, wretch,
- shoot thou best arrows capable of piercing into the very vitals.' Thus addressed, Arjuna, began to shower
- his arrows on him. Both of them then became angry and, engaging in fierce conflict, began to shoot at
- each other showers of arrows, each resembling a snake of virulent poison. And Arjuna rained a perfect
- shower of arrows on the Kirata, Sankara, however, bore that downpour on him with a cheerful heart.
- But the wielder of the Pinaka, having borne that shower of arrows for a moment, stood unwounded,
- immovable like a hill. Dhananjaya, beholding his arrowy shower become futile, wondered exceedingly,
- repeatedly saying, 'Excellent! Excellent! Alas, this mountaineer of delicate limbs, dwelling on the
- heights of the Himavat, beareth, without wavering, the shafts shot from the Gandiva! Who is he? Is he
- Rudra himself, or some other god, or a Yaksha, or an Asura? The gods sometimes do descend on the
- heights of the Himavat. Except the god who wieldeth the Pinaka, there is none rise that can bear the
- impetuosity of the thousands of arrows shot by me from the Gandiva. Whether he is a god or a Yaksha, in fact, anybody except Rudra, I shall soon send him, with my shafts, to the regions of Yama.'
- Thus thinking, Arjuna, with a cheerful heart, began, O
- king, to shoot arrows by hundreds, resembling in splendour the rays of the sun. That downpour of shafts,
- however, the illustrious Creator of the worlds--the wielder of the trident--bore with a glad heart, like a
- mountain bearing a shower of rocks. Soon, however, the arrows of Phalguna were exhausted. And
- noticing this fact, Arjuna became greatly alarmed.
- Varna Parva: Section XXXIX
Advertisement
Add Comment
Please, Sign In to add comment
Advertisement