Each of those cars had eight wheels, and was made up of the five primal elements, and supremely beautiful. Those original regents of the world who had taken birth as the sons of Dharma, became extremely emaciated in body on account of the austerities they practised. Indeed, for those austerities and for their energy, the very gods were unable to look at them. Only that god to whom they were kind could see them.
अष्टचक्रं हि तद् यानं भूतयुक्तं मनोरमम्। तत्राद्यौ लोकनाथौ तौ कृशौ धमनिसंततौ॥ तपसा तेजसा चैव दुर्निरीक्ष्यौ सुरैरपि। यस्य प्रसादं कुर्वाते स देवौ द्रष्टुमर्हति॥