व्यसु: पपाताम्भसि कृत्तशीर्षो निकृत्तशृङ्गोऽद्रिरिवेन्द्रतेजसा । तस्यात्मजा: सप्त पितुर्वधातुरा: प्रतिक्रियामर्षजुष: समुद्यता: ॥ ११ ॥
vyasuḥ papātāmbhasi kṛtta-śīrṣo nikṛtta-śṛṅgo ’drir ivendra-tejasā tasyātmajāḥ sapta pitur vadhāturāḥ pratikriyāmarṣa-juṣaḥ samudyatāḥ
- vyasuḥ
- lifeless
- papāta
- he fell
- ambhasi
- into the water
- kṛtta
- severed
- śīrṣaḥ
- his heads
- nikṛtta
- cut off
- śṛṅgaḥ
- whose peak
- adriḥ
- a mountain
- iva
- as if
- indra
- of Lord Indra
- tejasā
- by the power (that is, by his thunderbolt)
- tasya
- his, Mura’s
- ātma-jāḥ
- sons
- sapta
- seven
- pituḥ
- of their father
- vadha
- by the killing
- āturāḥ
- very distressed
- pratikriyā
- for retribution
- amarṣa
- fury
- juṣaḥ
- feeling
- samudyatāḥ
- aroused to action
Lifeless, Mura’s decapitated body fell into the water like a mountain whose peak has been severed by the power of Lord Indra’s thunderbolt. The demon’s seven sons, enraged by their father’s death, prepared to retaliate.