SB 8.21.17

SB 8.21.17

Devanagari

नन्द: सुनन्दोऽथ जयो विजय: प्रबलो बल: । कुमुद: कुमुदाक्षश्च विष्वक्सेन: पतत्‍त्रिराट् ॥ १६ ॥ जयन्त: श्रुतदेवश्च पुष्पदन्तोऽथ सात्वत: । सर्वे नागायुतप्राणाश्चमूं ते जघ्नुरासुरीम् ॥ १७ ॥

Verse text

nandaḥ sunando ’tha jayo vijayaḥ prabalo balaḥ kumudaḥ kumudākṣaś ca viṣvaksenaḥ patattrirāṭ jayantaḥ śrutadevaś ca puṣpadanto ’tha sātvataḥ sarve nāgāyuta-prāṇāś camūṁ te jaghnur āsurīm

Synonyms

nandaḥ sunandaḥ the associates of Lord Viṣṇu such as Nanda and Sunanda ; atha in this way ; jayaḥ vijayaḥ prabalaḥ balaḥ kumudaḥ kumudākṣaḥ ca viṣvaksenaḥ as well as Jaya, Vijaya, Prabala, Bala, Kumada, Kumudākṣa and Viṣvaksena ; patattri rāṭ — Garuḍa, the king of the birds ; jayantaḥ śrutadevaḥ ca puṣpadantaḥ atha sātvataḥ Jayanta, Śrutadeva, Puṣpadanta and Sātvata ; sarve all of them ; nāga ayuta — prāṇāḥ — as powerful as ten thousand elephants ; camūm the soldiers of the demons ; te they ; jaghnuḥ killed ; āsurīm demoniac .

Translation

Nanda, Sunanda, Jaya, Vijaya, Prabala, Bala, Kumuda, Kumudākṣa, Viṣvaksena, Patattrirāṭ [Garuḍa], Jayanta, Śrutadeva, Puṣpadanta and Sātvata were all associates of Lord Viṣṇu. They were as powerful as ten thousand elephants, and now they began killing the soldiers of the demons.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Nanda, Sunanda, Jaya, Vijaya, Prabala, Bala, Kumuda, Kumudākṣa, Viṣvaksena, Garuḍa Jayanta, Śrutadeva, Puṣpadanta and Sātvata, as powerful as ten thousand elephants, killed the demonic army. In order to show the frightful nature of offending the devotees of the Lord, expansions of Jaya and Vijaya fell from Vaikuṇṭha. [Note: The original forms remained in Vaikuṇṭha and in the present pastime they assist the Lord in the fight. Their expansions playing the roles of demons stayed n the material world until Kṛṣṇa liberated them. ] This has been explained in the description of Vaikuṇṭha in the Third Canto. Nāgas are elephants which move around Lokāloka mountain range. [Note: See SB 5.20.39.] Or they are elephants who are vibhūtis of the Lord in Vaikuṇṭha.