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Bhagavai 3:2:112
-:81:that was best, quick, hasty, terrible, accelerating, topmost, like that of lion's, rapid and celestial. There, he placed one leg on the padmavaravedikā and another on the Sudharma Hall and shouted aloud, striking on the indrakīla (the banner of Indra) thrice with the club-gem. Striking thus, he exclaimed—where is that Sakra, the chief and the king of gods, where, are the eighty-four thousand co-chief gods, where are those thirty-three minister gods, where are those four custodians, where are those eight chief queens with retinue, where are those three assemblies, where are those seven armies, where are those seven army-chiefs, where are those three lac thirty-six thousand sentinel gods, where are those millions of celestial damsels? I shall beat them all, twist them, torture them, let the celestial damsels who were not under my control, come under my control now'. Thus he hurls harsh abuses that were unseemly, indecorous, unsavory, inauspicious, unpleasant and disagreeable.
Bhāsya 1. Parigharatna (club-gem)
In Apte's The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Parigha is translated as 'an iron club in general'. It is a kind of weapon. For club, we have gadā, mudgara, danda or läthi in English-Hindi Dictionary. 2. Tigimcchikūta, Utpātparvat
These have been described in Bhagavatī, 2.118. In the Thānam, there is mention of many Utpat mountains of Camara and others.' 3. Uttarvaikriyarūpa (para-protean body)
When the Empyrean and other gods come to the human world, they create bodies appropriate to the human world. The gods have two types of bodies: bodies appropriate to their life form, and para-protean bodies created provisionally. The neck-dwelling gods and the gods of the victory heavens do not create para-protean bodies, and so they have only bodies that are appropriate to their life-form. Other gods have both types of bodies. The bodies of gods and infernals, that are appropriate to their life-forms are called proto-protean. Their newly created bodies are postprotean as compared with the proto-protean. Abhayadevasūri has explained the post-protean (para-protean body) as the body created subsequently. Mostly gods do not travel to other places in their original body (which is appropriate to their lifeform).
They create their para-protean body in their own abode before travelling to other places." 4. Bhayāņiya (fearful)
It is the Prakrit form of Bhayānita. The Vrtti gives two Sanskrit forms of this
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