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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.59.6
yugantasani-bhishanam
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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