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Chapter 1.2 - Verse 221

Sanskrit Text

आपाने पानगलिता दैवेनाभिप्रचोदिताः एरकारूपिभिर्वज्रैर्निजघ्नुरितरेतरम्

English Translation

It relates how on account of the Brahmana a curse, when they were all deprived of their senses with drink, those tigers of men (belonging to the Vrishni race), with many scars of battle on their bodies, slew one another on the shores of the salt-sea with Eraka grass which became deadly thunders in their hands,

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

भीमसेन + भय | यत्र | दैव + अभिप्रचोदय्
एरका + रूपिन् | वज्रैर् | निजघ्नुर् | इतरेतरम्