Though only five years' old, his prowess, even then, resembled that of a powerful elephant. While thus playing the child met a powerful tiger that attacked him suddenly.
पञ्चवर्षकदेशीयो बालो नागेन्द्रविक्रमः। सहसोत्पतितं व्याघ्रमाससाद महाबलम्॥