एकं पादं पदाक्रम्य दोर्भ्यामन्यं प्रगृह्य स: । गुदत: पाटयामास शाखमिव महागज: ॥ ४३ ॥
ekam pādaṁ padākramya dorbhyām anyaṁ pragṛhya saḥ gudataḥ pāṭayām āsa śākham iva mahā-gajaḥ
- ekam
- one
- pādam
- leg
- padā
- with his foot
- ākramya
- standing on top of
- dorbhyām
- with his two hands
- anyam
- the other
- pragṛhya
- taking hold of
- saḥ
- he
- gudataḥ
- beginning from the anus
- pāṭayām āsa
- tore him asunder
- śākhām
- a tree branch
- iva
- as
- mahā
- great
- gajaḥ
- an elephant
Bhīma pressed down on one leg with his foot while grabbing Jarāsandha’s other leg in his hands, and just as a great elephant might break the branch of a tree, Bhīma tore Jarāsandha apart from the anus upward.