karena -- with His hand; vamena -- left; sa-lilam -- playfully; uddhritam -- lifted; sajyam -- the stringing; ca -- and; kritva -- doing; nimishena -- in the wink of an eye; pasyatam -- as they watched; nrinam -- the guards; vikrishya -- pulling it taut; prababhanja -- He broke it; madhyatah -- in the middle; yatha -- as; ikshu -- of sugarcane; dandam -- a stick; mada-kari -- an excited elephant; urukramah -- Lord Krishna.

Easily lifting the bow with His left hand, Lord Urukrama strung it in a fraction of a second as the King's guards looked on. He then powerfully pulled the string and snapped the bow in half, just as an excited elephant might break a stalk of sugar cane.