Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.46.25

tāla-trayaḿ mahā-sāraḿ

dhanur yaṣṭim ivebha-rāṭ

babhañjaikena hastena

saptāham adadhād girim

SYNONYMS

tāla-trayam — as long as three palm trees; mahā-sāram — extremely solid; dhanuḥ — the bow; yaṣṭim — a stick; iva — as; ibha-rāṭ — a royal elephant; babhañja — He broke; ekena — with one; hastena — hand; sapta-aham — for seven days; adadhāt — held; girim — a mountain.

TRANSLATION

With the ease of a royal elephant breaking a stick, Kṛṣṇa broke a powerful, giant bow three tālas long. He also held a mountain aloft for seven days with just one hand.

PURPORT

According to Ācārya Viśvanātha, a tāla ("palm tree") is a measurement of about sixty hastas, or ninety feet. Thus the great bow Kṛṣṇa broke was two hundred seventy feet long.

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