सुरासुरेन्द्रैर्भुजवीर्यवेपितं परिभ्रमन्तं गिरिमङ्ग पृष्ठत: । बिभ्रत् तदावर्तनमादिकच्छपो मेनेऽङ्गकण्डूयनमप्रमेय: ॥ १० ॥
surasurendrair bhuja-virya-vepitam paribhramantam girim anga prsthatah bibhrat tad-avartanam adi-kacchapo mene ’nga-kanduyanam aprameyah
- sura-asura-indraih
- by the leaders of the demons and the demigods
- bhuja-virya
- by the strength of their arms
- vepitam
- moving
- paribhramantam
- rotating
- girim
- the mountain
- anga
- O Maharaja Pariksit
- prsthatah
- on His back
- bibhrat
- bore
- tat
- of that
- avartanam
- the rotating
- adi-kacchapah
- as the supreme original tortoise
- mene
- considered
- anga-kanduyanam
- as pleasing scratching of the body
- aprameyah
- unlimited
O King, when the demigods and demons, by the strength of their arms, rotated Mandara Mountain on the back of the extraordinary tortoise, the tortoise accepted the rolling of the mountain as a means of scratching His body, and thus He felt a pleasing sensation.