Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 28


Sanskrit:

अथागतस्मृतिरभयो रिपुं बलोविहायसार्थमिव हरन्तमात्मन: ।रुषाहनच्छिरसि द‍ृढेन मुष्टिनासुराधिपो गिरिमिव वज्ररंहसा ॥ २८ ॥

ITRANS:

athāgata-smṛtir abhayo ripuṁ balovihāya sārtham iva harantam ātmanaḥruṣāhanac chirasi dṛḍhena muṣṭināsurādhipo girim iva vajra-raṁhasā

Translation:

Remembering the actual situation, the fearless Balarāma understood that the demon was tṛying to kidnap Him and take Him away from His companions. The Lord then became furious and struck the demon’s head with His hard fist, just as Indra, the king of the demigods, strikes a mountain with his thunderbolt weapon.

Purport:

Lord Balarāma’s powerful fist came crashing down upon the demon’s head, just as a huge lightning bolt comes crashing into a mountain, cracking its stone surface into pieces. The words vihāya sārtham iva may also be divided vihāyasā artham iva, meaning that the demon was flying in the sky on the cosmic path, vihāyas, with the purpose of carrying off Balarāma, who was his artham, or object of pursuit.