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Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter 59: The Killing of the Demon Naraka

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 6

pāñcajanya-dhvaniṁ śrutvā
yugāntaśani-bhīṣaṇam
muraḥ śayāna uttasthau
daityaḥ pañca-śirā jalāt

SYNONYMS

pāñcajanya—of Pāñcajanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa's conchshell; dhvanim—the vibration; śrutvā—hearing; yuga—of the universal era; anta—at the end; aśani—(like the sound) of lightning; bhīṣaṇam—terrifying; muraḥ—Mura; śayānaḥ—sleeping; uttasthau—stood up; daityaḥ—the demon; pañca-śirāḥ—five-headed; jalāt—from the water (of the moat surrounding the fortress).

TRANSLATION

The five-headed demon Mura, who slept at the bottom of the city's moat, awoke and rose up out of the water when he heard the vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa's Pāñcajanya conchshell, a sound as terrifying as the thunder at the end of the cosmic age.

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