तं तु सङ्कर्षणो मूर्ध्नि पतन्तमचलो यथा । प्रतिजग्राह बलवान् सुनन्देनाहनच्च तम् ॥ १८ ॥
taṁ tu saṅkarṣaṇo mūrdhni patantam acalo yathā pratijagrāha balavān sunandenāhanac ca tam
- tam
- that (tree trunk)
- tu
- but
- saṅkarṣaṇaḥ
- Lord Balarāma
- mūrdhni
- on His head
- patantam
- falling
- acalaḥ
- an unmoving mountain
- yathā
- like
- pratijagrāha
- took hold of
- bala-vān
- powerful
- sunandena
- with Sunanda, His club
- ahanat
- He struck
- ca
- and
- tam
- him, Dvivida
But Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa remained as motionless as a mountain and simply grabbed the log as it fell upon His head. He then struck Dvivida with His club, named Sunanda.