24. The devas finding their fit opportunities, killed the demons one by one; as the aerial hawks pounce upon and kill the feeble and timid sparrows.
25. The king of the demons then appointed other generals over his army, and they were as swift-footed and hoarse sounding as the waves of the sea.
26. The Devas destroyed these also in a short time; when the leader of the demon band pursued his enemies to their station above the heavens.
27. The gods fled from their heavenly abode for fear of them, as the timorous deer fly from before the sight of Siva’s and Gaurí’s bull into the thick thickets.
28. The gods were weakened with weeping, and the faces of Apsaras were suffused in tears. The demon saw the heavenly abode abandoned by the celestials, as it was the desolation of the world.
29. He wandered about in his rage, and plundered and took away all the valuables of the place. He burnt down the cities of the regents of heaven, and then returned to his own abode.
30. The enmity between the deities and demons, was so inveterate on both sides, that it forced the Devas to quit their heavenly abodes, and hide themselves in distant parts of the world.
31. But the enraged gods, succeeded at last by their perseverance, to defeat and slay all the generals and combatants, that were set against them by Sambara.
32. The discomfited demon, then gave vent to his fury, and began to breathe out living fire from his nostrils like a burning mountain.
33. He after much search in the three worlds, found out the hiding place of the gods, as a wicked man succeeds in his purpose by his best endeavours.