Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 8 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18


Sanskrit:

निर्मथ्यमानादुदधेरभूद्विषंमहोल्बणं हालहलाह्वमग्रत: ।सम्भ्रान्तमीनोन्मकराहिकच्छपात्तिमिद्विपग्राहतिमिङ्गिलाकुलात् ॥ १८ ॥

ITRANS:

nirmathyamānād udadher abhūd viṣaṁmaholbaṇaṁ hālahalāhvam agrataḥsambhrānta-mīnonmakarāhi-kacchapāttimi-dvipa-grāha-timiṅgilākulāt

Translation:

The fish, sharks, tortoises and snakes were most agitated and perturbed. The entire ocean became turbulent, and even the large aquatic animals like whales, water elephants, crocodiles and timiṅgila fish [large whales that can swallow small whales] came to the surface. While the ocean was being churned in this way, it first produced a fiercely dangerous poison called hālahala.

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