श्रीसमुद्र उवाच न चाहार्षमहं देव दैत्य: पञ्चजनो महान् । अन्तर्जलचर: कृष्ण शङ्खरूपधरोऽसुर: ॥ ४० ॥
śrī-samudra uvāca na cāhārṣam ahaṁ deva daityaḥ pañcajano mahān antar-jala-caraḥ kṛṣṇa śaṅkha-rūpa-dharo ’suraḥ
- śrī-samudraḥ uvāca
- the ocean personified said
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- ahārṣam
- did take (him) away
- aham
- I
- deva
- O Lord
- daityaḥ
- a descendant of Diti
- pañcajanaḥ
- named Pañcajana
- mahān
- powerful
- antaḥ
- within
- jala
- the water
- caraḥ
- going
- kṛṣṇa
- O Kṛṣṇa
- śaṅkha
- of a conch
- rūpa
- the form
- dharaḥ
- assuming
- asuraḥ
- the demon
The ocean replied: O Lord Kṛṣṇa, it was not I who abducted him, but a demonic descendant of Diti named Pañcajana, who travels in the water in the form of a conch.