Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.54-55

sa nirmāya puras tisro

haimī-raupyāyasīr vibhuh

durlakshyāpāya-samyogā

durvitarkya-paricchadāh

tābhis te 'sura-senānyo

lokāms trīn seśvarān nripa

smaranto nāśayām cakruh

pūrva-vairam alakshitāh

SYNONYMS

sah — that (great demon Maya Dānava); nirmāya — constructing; purah — big residences; tisrah — three; haimī — made of gold; raupyā — made of silver; āyasīh — made of iron; vibhuh — very great, powerful; durlakshya — immeasurable; apāya-samyogāh — whose movements in coming and going; durvitarkya — uncommon; paricchadāh — possessing paraphernalia; tābhih — by all of them (the three residences, which resembled airplanes); te — they; asura-senā-anyah — the commanders of the asuras; lokān trīn — the three worlds; sa-īśvarān — with their chief rulers; nripa — my dear King Yudhishthira; smarantah — remembering; nāśayām cakruh — began to annihilate; pūrva — former; vairam — enmity; alakshitāh — unseen by anyone else.

TRANSLATION

Maya Dānava, the great leader of the demons, prepared three invisible residences and gave them to the demons. These dwellings resembled airplanes made of gold, silver and iron, and they contained uncommon paraphernalia. My dear King Yudhishthira, because of these three dwellings the commanders of the demons remained invisible to the demigods. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the demons, remembering their former enmity, began to vanquish the three worlds — the upper, middle and lower planetary systems.

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