The foremost of Beings, (viz., Narayana), thus awakened understood that the two Danavas intended to fight with him. Seeing the two foremost of Asuras prepared to battle with him, he also wished to satisfy that desire of theirs.
युद्धार्थिनौ हि विज्ञाय विबुद्धः पुरुषोत्तमः॥ निरीक्ष्य चासुरेन्द्रौ तौ ततो युद्धे मनो दधे।