Landing Mahadeva and spreading an effulgence all around, desirous of increasing the honor of Ashvatthaman and the glory of the great Hara, and wishing to ascertain the extent of Ashvatthaman's power, and desirous also of witnessing the destruction during the hour of sleep, armed with terrible and fierce bludgeons and fiery wheels and battle-axes, that host of strange beings, having terrible forins, came from all sides.
संस्तुवन्तो महादेवं भाः कुर्वाणा: सुवर्चसः॥ विवर्धयिषवो द्रौणेमहिमानं महात्मनः। जिज्ञासमानास्तत्तेजः सौप्तिकं च दिदृक्षवः॥ भीमोग्नपरिघालातशूलपटिशपाणयः। घोररूपा: समाजग्मुर्भूतसङ्घाः समन्ततः॥