While the Asura was yawning, Indra discharged his thunderbolt at him. Endued with great enrgy and resembling the fire that destroys the creation at the end of the cycle, that thunderbolt overthrew in a moment Vritra of gigantic form.
अथास्य जम्भतः शक्रस्ततो वज्रमवासृजत्। स वज्रः सुमहातेजा: कालाग्निसदृशोपमः॥ क्षिप्रमेव महाकायं वृत्रं दैत्यमपातयत्।