Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 59: The Killing of the Demon Naraka

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.59.6

pancajanya-dhvanim srutva

yugantasani-bhishanam

murah sayana uttasthau

daityah panca-sira jalat

SYNONYMS

pancajanya -- of Pancajanya, Lord Krishna's conchshell; dhvanim -- the vibration; srutva -- hearing; yuga -- of the universal era; anta -- at the end; asani -- (like the sound) of lightning; bhishanam -- terrifying; murah -- Mura; sayanah -- sleeping; uttasthau -- stood up; daityah -- the demon; panca-sirah -- five-headed; jalat -- 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 Krishna's Pancajanya conchshell, a sound as terrifying as the thunder at the end of the cosmic age.

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