Devanagari
धनुर्विस्फूर्जयन्दिव्यं द्विषतां खेदमुद्वहन् ।
अस्त्रौघं व्यधमद्बाणैर्घनानीकमिवानिल: ॥ १६ ॥
Verse text
dhanur visphūrjayan divyaṁ
dviṣatāṁ khedam udvahan
astraughaṁ vyadhamad bāṇair
ghanānīkam ivānilaḥ
Synonyms
dhanuḥ
—
his bow
;
visphūrjayan
—
twanging
;
divyam
—
wonderful
;
dviṣatām
—
of the enemies
;
khedam
—
lamentation
;
udvahan
—
creating
;
astra-ogham
—
different types of weapons
;
vyadhamat
—
he scattered
;
bāṇaiḥ
—
with his arrows
;
ghana
—
of clouds
;
anīkam
—
an army
;
iva
—
like
;
anilaḥ
—
the wind.
Translation
Dhruva Mahārāja’s bow and arrows twanged and hissed, causing lamentation in the hearts of his enemies. He began to shoot incessant arrows, shattering all their different weapons, just as the blasting wind scatters the assembled clouds in the sky.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Twanging his wondrous bow and creating dismay, he dispelled the mass of weapons with his arrows, just as the wind dispels a mass of clouds.
Vyadhamat means “he ground up.”