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SB 10.59.6

Devanāgarī

पाञ्चजन्यध्वनिं श्रुत्वा युगान्तशनिभीषणम् । मुर: शयान उत्तस्थौ दैत्य: पञ्चशिरा जलात् ॥ ६ ॥

Text

pāñcajanya-dhvaniṁ śrutvā yugāntaśani-bhīṣaṇam muraḥ śayāna uttasthau daityaḥ pañca-śirā jalāt

Synonyms

pāñcajanya—of Pāñcajanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s conchshell;dhvanim—the vibration;śrutvā—hearing;yuga—of the universal era;anta—at the end;aśani—(like the sound) of lightning;bhīṣaṇam—terrifying;muraḥ—Mura;śayānaḥ—sleeping;uttasthau—stood up;daityaḥ—the demon;pañca-śirāḥ—five-headed;jalāt—from the water (of the moat surrounding the fortress).

Translation

The five-headed demon Mura, who slept at the bottom of the city’s moat, awoke and rose up out of the water when he heard the vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Pāñcajanya conchshell, a sound as terrifying as the thunder at the end of the cosmic age.

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