Then Kumbhakarņa's huge head deprived of the ear-rings appeared like the Moon seated in the midst of the heavens) on the rising of the Sun in the morning.* *This Sloka is wanting in many texts.
कुम्भकर्णशिरो भाति कुण्डलालंकृतं महत्। आदित्येऽभ्युदिते रात्रौ मध्यस्थ इव चन्द्रमाः॥