श्रीशुक उवाच केशी तु कंसप्रहित: खुरैर्महीं महाहयो निर्जरयन् मनोजव: । सटावधूताभ्रविमानसङ्कुलं कुर्वन् नभो हेषितभीषिताखिल: ॥ १ ॥ तं त्रासयन्तं भगवान् स्वगोकुलं तद्धेषितैर्वालविघूर्णिताम्बुदम् । आत्मानमाजौ मृगयन्तमग्रणी- रुपाह्वयत् स व्यनदन्मृगेन्द्रवत् ॥ २ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca keśī tu kaṁsa-prahitaḥ khurair mahīṁ mahā-hayo nirjarayan mano-javaḥ saṭāvadhūtābhra-vimāna-saṅkulaṁ kurvan nabho heṣita-bhīṣitākhilaḥ taṁ trāsayantaṁ bhagavān sva-gokulaṁ tad-dheṣitair vāla-vighūrṇitāmbudam ātmānam ājau mṛgayantam agra-ṇīr upāhvayat sa vyanadan mṛgendra-vat
- śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
- Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
- keśī
- the demon named Keśī
- tu
- and then
- kaṁsa-prahitaḥ
- sent by Kaṁsa
- khuraiḥ
- with his hooves
- mahīm
- the earth
- mahā-hayaḥ
- a huge horse
- nirjarayan
- ripping apart
- manaḥ
- like that of the mind
- javaḥ
- whose speed
- saṭā
- by the hairs of his mane
- avadhūta
- scattered
- abhra
- with the clouds
- vimāna
- and the airplanes (of the demigods)
- saṅkulam
- crowded
- kurvan
- making
- nabhaḥ
- the sky
- heṣita
- by his neighing
- bhīṣita
- frightened
- akhilaḥ
- everyone
- tam
- him
- trāsayantam
- terrifying
- bhagavān
- the Supreme Lord
- sva-gokulam
- His cowherd village
- tat-heṣitaiḥ
- by that neighing
- vāla
- by the hairs of his tail
- vighūrṇita
- shaken
- ambudam
- the clouds
- ātmānam
- Himself
- ājau
- for a fight
- mṛgayantam
- searching after
- agra-nīḥ
- coming forward
- upāhvayat
- called out
- saḥ
- he, Keśī
- vyanadan
- roared
- mṛgendra-vat
- like a lion
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The demon Keśī, sent by Kaṁsa, appeared in Vraja as a great horse. Running with the speed of the mind, he tore up the earth with his hooves. The hairs of his mane scattered the clouds and the demigods’ airplanes throughout the sky, and he terrified everyone present with his loud neighing.