Once upon a time the two greatly powerful Danavas, Madhu and Kaitabha saw the lord Hari of great effulgence adorned with a crown and the Kaustubha gem and clad in purple silk robe, lying stretched for many yojanas on that excellent celestials bed furnished by the hood of the snake which itself lay extended far and wide blazing in its own beauty and lustre which resembled like one thousand suns concentrated in one mass.
कस्यचित् त्वथ कालस्य दानवौ वीर्यवत्तमौ॥ मधुश्च कैटभश्चैव दृष्टवन्तौ हरिं प्रभुम्। शयानं शयने दिव्ये नागभोगे महाद्युतिम्॥ बहुयोजनविस्तीर्णे बहुयोजनमायते। किरीटकौस्तुभधरं पीतकौशेयवाससम्॥ दीप्यमानं श्रिया राजंस्तेजसा वपुषा तथा। सहस्रसूर्यप्रतिममद्भुतोपमदर्शनम्॥