18. These cowards wishing to preserve their bodies from the hands of death, became as powerless as to rest satisfied with having the feet of their enemies set up on their heads. (i.e. They fell at the feet of their foes to spare their lives; (as they say; that cowards die many times before their death)).
19. Thus these enervated demons, were as disabled to kill the enemy standing before them; as the fire is unable to consume the sacred ghee offering, when it is not kindled by its fuel.
20. They became as gnats before the aggressive gods, and stood with their bruised bodies like beaten soldiers.
21. What needs saying more, than that the demons being overpowered by the gods, fled away from the field of battle for fear of their lives.
22. When the demons Dáma, Vyála, Kata and others, who were renounced before the gods in their prowess, fled cowardly in different ways:—
23. The force of the Daityas, fell before the deities, and fled from the air on all sides, like the falling stars of heaven, at the end of a kalpa age or last day (of judgment).
24. They fell upon the summits of mountains, and in the arbours of the Sumeru range; some were enwrapt in the folds of the clouds above, and others fell on the banks of distant seas below.
25. Many fell in the cavities of the eddies of seas, and in the abyss of the ocean, and in the running streams; some fell into far distant forests, and others dropped down amidst the burning woods of wild fire.
26. Some being pierced by the arrows of the celestials, fell in distant countries, villages and cities on earth; and others were hurled in thick jungles of wild beasts, and in sandy deserts and in wild conflagrations. (i.e. The demons were hurled down by the gods from high heaven to the earth below).
27. Many fell in the polar regions, some alighting on the mountain tops, and others sinking in the lakes below; while several of them were tossed over the countries of Ándhra, Dravida, Kashmir and Persia.