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After Indra cut off his two arms, Vrtrasura, bleeding profusely, assumed a gigantic body which shook even the mountams and began crushing the surface of the earth with his legs. He came before Indra and swallowed him and Airavata, his carrier, just as a big python might swallow an elephant. The Narayana armor protected King Indra, and with his thunderbolt he pierced through Vrtrasura's abdomen and came out. Indra, the killer of the demon Bala, then cut off Vrtrasura's head, which was as high as the peak of a mountain.