In number, like his foes, fourteen.

His bow he grasped, the string he drew,

And gazing on the giant crew,

As Indra casts the levin, so

Shot forth his arrows at the foe.

The hurtling arrows, stained with gore,

Through the fiends' breasts a passage tore,

And in the earth lay buried deep

As serpents through an ant-hill creep

Like trees uptorn by stormy blast