Showed like the sun obscured by cloud.

Like serpents hissing through the air,

His arrows smote the princely pair;

And from their limbs at every rent

A stream of rushing blood was sent.

Like Kinśuk trees they stood, that show

In spring their blossoms' crimson glow.

Then Indrajít with fury eyed

Ikshváku's royal sons, and cried:

“Not mighty Indra can assail