O foremost of the Bharata race, after the sons were thus consumed by the fire of wrath, the ruler of earth, Kuvalashva, endued with great energy, approached that high-souled one (Asura) who, now awake, was like a second Kumbhakarna.
तेषु क्रोधाग्निदग्धेषु तदा भरतसत्तम॥ तं प्रबुद्धं महात्मानं कुम्भकर्णमिवापरम्। आससाद महातेजाः कुवलाश्वो महीपतिः॥