As Indra hurls his bolts below:

Fierce as the rushing tempest, loud

As thunder from a labouring cloud:

Whene'er he roared his voice of fear

Struck terror on the boldest ear:

Now slain, as, hungry for the prey,

A tiger might a lion slay:

Or when, his serpent foe to seek,

Suparṇa[600] with his furious beak

Tears up a sacred hillock, long