That God-sent might is more than steel.”

He raised his Bráhman staff, nor missed

The fiery dart that near him hissed:

And quenched the fearful weapon fell,

As flame beneath the billow's swell.

Then Gádhi's son in fury threw

Lord Varuṇ's arm and Rudra's too:

Indra's fierce bolt that all destroys;

That which the Lord of Herds employs:

The Human, that which minstrels keep,