करेण वामेन सलीलमुद्धृतंसज्यं च कृत्वा निमिषेण पश्यताम् । नृणां विकृष्य प्रबभञ्ज मध्यतोयथेक्षुदण्डं मदकर्युरुक्रम: ॥ १७ ॥
kareṇa vāmena sa-līlam uddhṛtaṁ sajyaṁ ca kṛtvā nimiṣeṇa paśyatām nṛṇāṁ vikṛṣya prababhañja madhyato yathekṣu-daṇḍaṁ mada-kary urukramaḥ
- kareṇa
- with His hand
- vāmena
- left
- sa-līlam
- playfully
- uddhṛtam
- lifted
- sajyam
- the stringing
- ca
- and
- kṛtvā
- doing
- nimiṣeṇa
- in the wink of an eye
- paśyatām
- as they watched
- nṛṇām
- the guards
- vikṛṣya
- pulling it taut
- prababhañja
- He broke it
- madhyataḥ
- in the middle
- yathā
- as
- ikṣu
- of sugarcane
- daṇḍam
- a stick
- mada-karī
- an excited elephant
- urukramaḥ
- Lord Kṛṣṇa
Easily lifting the bow with His left hand, Lord Urukrama strung it in a fraction of a second as the King’s guards looked on. He then powerfully pulled the string and snapped the bow in half, just as an excited elephant might break a stalk of sugar cane.