Formerly, the Earth, O king, was encompassed by Vritra, and by this abstraction of earthly matter the seat of all smeil, there arose bad odours on all sides, and the Performer of a Hundred Sacrifices (Indra), being much incensed by this deed, hurled his thunderbolt at Vritra.
वृत्रेण पृथिवी व्याप्ता पुरा किल नराधिप। दृष्ट्वा स पृथिवीं व्याप्तां गन्धस्य विषये हते॥ धराहरणदुर्गन्धो विषयः समपद्यत। शतक्रतुशुकोपाथ गन्धस्य विषये हृते॥ वृत्रस्य स ततः क्रुद्धो घोरं वज्रमवासृजत्।