Those shafts which had severed the seven stately salas, and, to boot, had slain Vāli—best of monkeys, they resembling the thunder itselfcould not impart any pain to Kumbhakarņa's body.
यैः सायकैः सालवरा निकृत्ता बाली हतो वानरपुङ्गवश्च। ते कुम्भकर्णस्य तदा शरीरं वज्रोपमानं व्यथयांप्रचक्रुः॥