And overtaken by Vritra, he was filled with great illusion. And, O venerable sir, the most powerful of Bharata's race, we have heard that Vasishtha comforted Indra and that the God of a Hundred Sacrifices killed Vritra in his body by means of his invisible thunderbolt, and know, O prince, that this religious mystery was recited by Shakra to the great sages, and they in turn told it to me.
तस्य वृत्रगृहीतस्य मोहः समभवन्महान्॥ रथन्तरेण तं तात वसिष्ठः प्रत्यबोधयत्। ततो वृत्रं शरीरस्थं जघान भरतर्षभ। शतक्रतुरदृश्येन वज्रेणेतीह नः श्रुतम्॥ इदं धन॑ रहस्यं वै शक्रेणोक्तं महर्षिषु। ऋषिभिश्च मम प्रोक्तं तन्निबोध जनाधिप।॥