That best of persons, seeing that foremost of Rākṣasas having the splendour of a living fire, stretched his bow to its full bent.
तं दृष्ट्वा राक्षसश्रेष्ठं प्रदीप्तांनलवर्चसम्। विस्फारयामास तदा कार्मुकं पुरुषर्षभः॥