मुषलावशेषाय:खण्डकृतेषुर्लुब्धको जरा । मृगास्याकारं तच्चरणं विव्याध मृगशङ्कया ॥ ३३ ॥
muṣalāvaśeṣāyaḥ-khaṇḍa- kṛteṣur lubdhako jarā mṛgāsyākāraṁ tac-caraṇaṁ vivyādha mṛga-śaṅkayā
- muṣala
- from the iron club
- avaśeṣa
- remaining
- ayaḥ
- of iron
- khaṇḍa
- with the fragment
- kṛta
- who had made
- iṣuḥ
- his arrow
- lubdhakaḥ
- the hunter
- jarā
- named Jarā
- mṛga
- of a deer
- āsya
- of the face
- ākāram
- having the form
- tat
- His
- caraṇam
- lotus foot
- vivyādha
- pierced
- mṛga-śaṅkayā
- thinking it to be a deer
Just then a hunter named Jarā, who had approached the place, mistook the Lord’s foot for a deer’s face. Thinking he had found his prey, Jarā pierced the foot with his arrow, which he had fashioned from the remaining iron fragment of Sāmba’s club.