Chapter 11
न तस्य हि त्वचमपि वज्र ऊर्जितो बिभेद य: सुरपतिनौजसेरित: । तदद्भुतं परमतिवीर्यवृत्रभित् तिरस्कृतो नमुचिशिरोधरत्वचा ॥ ३२ ॥
Transliteration
na tasya hi tvacam api vajra ūrjito bibheda yaḥ sura-patinaujaseritaḥ tad adbhutaṁ param ativīrya-vṛtra-bhit tiraskṛto namuci-śirodhara-tvacā
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
na — not; tasya — of him (Namuci); hi — indeed; tvacam api — even the skin; vajraḥ — the thunderbolt; ūrjitaḥ — very powerful; bibheda — could pierce; yaḥ — the weapon which; sura-patinā — by the king of the demigods; ojasā — very forcefully; īritaḥ — had been released; tat — therefore; adbhutam param — it was extraordinarily wonderful; ativīrya-vṛtra-bhit — so powerful that it could pierce the body of the very powerful Vṛtrāsura; tiraskṛtaḥ — (now in the future) which had been repelled; namuci-śirodhara-tvacā — by the skin of Namuci’s neck.
Translation
“Although King Indra hurled his thunderbolt at Namuci with great force, it could not even pierce his skin. It is very wonderful that the famed thunderbolt that had pierced the body of Vṛtrāsura could not even slightly injure the skin of Namuci’s neck.”