Not even that lord-Sakra himself-mounted on his Airāvata, and engirt by all the immortals, had ever before stayed before me in the field.
ऐरावतं समारूढो वृतः सर्वामरैः प्रभुः। नैव शक्रोऽपि समरे स्थितपूर्वः कदाचन॥