अथो हरे मे कुलिशेन वीर हर्ता प्रमथ्यैव शिरो यदीह । तत्रानृणो भूतबलिं विधाय मनस्विनां पादरज: प्रपत्स्ये ॥ १८ ॥
atho hare me kulisena vira harta pramathyaiva siro yadiha tatranrno bhuta-balim vidhaya manasvinam pada-rajah prapatsye
- atho
- otherwise
- hare
- O King Indra
- me
- of me
- kulisena
- by your thunderbolt
- vira
- O great hero
- harta
- you cut off
- pramathya
- destroying my army
- eva
- certainly
- sirah
- head
- yadi
- if
- iha
- in this battle
- tatra
- in that case
- anrnah
- relieved of all debts in this material world
- bhuta-balim
- a presentation for all living entities
- vidhaya
- arranging
- manasvinam
- of great sages like Narada Muni
- pada-rajah
- the dust of the lotus feet
- prapatsye
- I shall achieve
But if in this battle you cut off my head with your thunderbolt and kill my soldiers, O Indra, O great hero, I shall take great pleasure in offering my body to other living entities (such as jackals and vultures). I shall thus be relieved of my obligations to the reactions of my karma, and my fortune will be to receive the dust from the lotus feet of great devotees like Narada Muni.