तथाहयो दन्दशूका: सर्पा नागाश्च तक्षकम् । विधाय वत्सं दुदुहुर्बिलपात्रे विषं पय: ॥ २२ ॥
tathahayo dandasukah sarpa nagas ca taksakam vidhaya vatsam duduhur bila-patre visam payah
- tatha
- similarly
- ahayah
- snakes without hoods
- dandasukah
- scorpions
- sarpah
- cobras
- nagah
- big snakes
- ca
- and
- taksakam
- Taksaka, chief of the snakes
- vidhaya
- making
- vatsam
- calf
- duduhuh
- milked out
- bila-patre
- in the pot of snake holes
- visam
- poison
- payah
- as milk.
Thereafter cobras and snakes without hoods, large snakes, scorpions and many other poisonous animals took poison out of the plane earth as their milk and kept this poison in snake holes. They made a calf out of Taksaka.