Verse 23

¹⁷in anger he took up his pestle and his plough, meaning to kill his enemy. And Dvivida, who was very strong himself, lifted a sala tree in his hand, ¹⁸came at him hard and struck Bala on the head with it. But Sankarsana, steady as a mountain, took that blow on his head as it came down, ¹⁹the strong one took it, and struck him with Sunanda. His skull broken by the pestle, he shone with the stream of blood, ²⁰as a mountain shines with red ochre. Paying no mind to the blow, he pulled up another tree and by main strength stripped it bare, ²¹and struck him with it in a great fury; and Bala split it a hundred ways. Then in his rage he struck with another, and Bala split that one a hundred ways too.

²²Fighting like this with the Bhagavan, and having them broken again and again, he dragged up trees from every side and left the wood with no tree in it. ²³Then, past bearing it, he let loose a rain of stones over Bala; and he whose weapon is the pestle ground the whole of it to powder in play.