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Whichever weapon the infuriated and conceited Bāņa had picked up, Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Madhu (the demon), quickly smashed it to pieces.
USĀNIRUDDHA
Wounded by sharp missles, rendered weaponless, his body smeared with streams of blood, the demon Bana greatly distressed, appeared (lit. became) like a mountain full of minerals.
[At this juncture] Bāṇa's mother Kottavi came out hastily and stood between them (Bāna and Krsna, the two warriors fighting each other). Then the son of Nanda (i.e. Kṛṣṇa) retired, and Bāna also entered his
mansion.
At this juncture there appeared on the battle-field, a three-headed monster- a dangerous kind of Fever let loose by Sankara-horrible in appearance, deformed in body, disagreeable and screechy in voice and frighteningly formidable in looks.
When that hostile Fever sent Yadu's warriors in profound swoon Hari [in retaliation] sent forth a mighty Four-armed Fever.
The Four-armed Fever of Visņu said to the threeheaded one as follows: "You are, O rash one, now making your own ruin at my hands easy like a moth who throws itself at a flame.
"To cure the disorder in the humours of the body caused by fever the [best] physician is only another fever. Is not the thorn stuck in the sole pulled out by another thorn ?
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