kṛtyānalaḥ pratihataḥ sa rathānga-pāṇer
astraujasā sa nṛpa bhagna-mukho nivṛttaḥ
vārāṇasīḿ parisametya sudakṣiṇaḿ taḿ
sartvig-janaḿ samadahat sva-kṛto 'bhicāraḥ
kritya -- produced by mystic power; analah -- the fire; pratihatah -- frustrated; sah -- he; ratha-anga-paneh -- of Lord Krishna, Who holds the Sudarsana disc in His hand; astra -- of the weapon; ojasa -- by the power; sah -- he; nripa -- O King; bhagna-mukhah -- turning away; nivrittah -- having desisted; varanasim -- the city of Varanasi; parisametya -- approaching on all sides; sudakshinam -- Sudakshina; tam -- him; sa -- together with; ritvik-janam -- his priests; samadahat -- burned to death; sva -- by himself (Sudakshina); kritah -- created; abhicarah -- meant for doing violence.
Frustrated by the power of Lord Krishna's weapon, O King, the fiery creature produced by black magic turned his face away and retreated. Created for violence, the demon then returned to Varanasi, where he surrounded the city and then burned Sudakshina and his priests to death, even though Sudakshina was his creator.
Srila Prabhupada comments as follows: "Having failed to set fire to Dvaraka, [the fiery demon] went back to Varanasi, the kingdom of Kasiraja. As a result of his return, all the priests who had helped instruct the black art of mantras, along with their employer, Sudakshina, were burned into ashes by the glaring effulgence of the fiery demon. According to the methods of black-art mantras instructed in the tantra, if the mantra fails to kill the enemy, then, because it must kill someone, it kills the original creator. Sudakshina was the originator, and the priests assisted him; therefore all of them were burned to ashes. This is the way of the demons: the demons create something to kill God, but by the same weapon the demons themselves are killed."
