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Chapter 3.158 - Verse 36

Sanskrit Text

तमासीनं महाकायाः शङ्कुकर्णा महाजवाः उपोपविविशुर्यक्षा राक्षसाश्च सहस्रशः

English Translation

Thousands of Rakshasas and Yakshas of great fleetness and huge structure and having ears resembling javelins and hundreds of Gandharvas and Apsaras sat surrounding that one who seated the gods (sit surrounding the performer of hundred sacrifices (Indra).

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

तत | एनं | महत् + काय | महत् + वीर्य | महत् + बल
उपोपविविशुर् | यक्षा | राक्षसाश् | च | सहस्रशः