Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 67: Lord Balarāma Slays Dvivida Gorilla

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.67.24

sa bāhū tāla-sańkāśau

muṣṭī-kṛtya kapīśvaraḥ

āsādya rohiṇī-putraḿ

tābhyāḿ vakṣasy arūrujat

SYNONYMS

saḥhe; bāhū — both his arms; tāla — palm trees; sańkāśauas big as; muṣṭī — into fists; kṛtya — making; kapi — of apes; īśvaraḥ — the most powerful; āsādya — confronting; rohiṇī-putram — the son of Rohiṇī, Balarāma; tābhyām — with them; vakṣasi — upon His chest; arūrujathe beat.

TRANSLATION

Dvivida, the most powerful of apes, now clenched his fists at the end of his palm-tree-sized arms, came before Lord Balarāma and beat his fists against the Lord's body.

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