Capable of cutting to the quick, covered with flesh and blood, effulgent like the sun or fire, made of precious ingredients, straightcoursing, impetuous, destructive of men, horses and elephants it was three cubits and six feet in length. Powerful as the thousand-eyed Indra's thunder-bolt, irresistible as the night rangers, the trident or the discus it was highly terrible and capable of destroying all creatures.
मर्मच्छिदं शोणितमांसदिग्धं वैश्वानरार्कप्रतिमं महार्हम्। नराश्वनागासुहरं त्र्यरत्न षड्वाजमञ्जोगतिमुग्रवेगम्॥ सहस्रनेत्राशतितुल्यवीर्य कालानलं व्यात्तमिवातिघोरम्। पिनाकनाराणचक्रसंनिभं भयङ्करं प्राणभृतां विनाशनम्॥