Canto 4: Creation of the Fourth Order | Chapter 10: Dhruva Mahārāja's Fight With the Yakṣas |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.10.8
sa tān āpatato vīra
ugra-dhanvā mahā-rathaḥ
ekaikaḿ yugapat sarvān
ahan bāṇais tribhis tribhiḥ
SYNONYMS
saḥ — Dhruva Mahārāja; tān — all of them; āpatataḥ — falling upon him; vīraḥ — hero; ugra-dhanvā — powerful bowman; mahā-rathaḥ — who could fight with many chariots; eka-ekam — one after another; yugapat — simultaneously; sarvān — all of them; ahan — killed; bāṇaiḥ — by arrows; tribhiḥ tribhiḥ — by threes.
TRANSLATION
Dhruva Mahārāja, who was a great charioteer and certainly a great bowman also, immediately began to kill them by simultaneously discharging arrows three at a time.
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