Held Tárá in his amorous arms,

And in the distant bower with her

Heard not each clamorous messenger.

Then, summoned at the lords' behest

Forth from the city portals pressed,

Each like some elephant or cloud,

The Vánars in a trembling crowd:

Fierce warriors all with massive jaws

And terrors of their tiger claws,

Some matched ten elephants, and some