Assuming the figure of a terrible buffalo, with sharpened horns like to a cloud big with water, ranging on the sky in the rainy season, and approaching the gate of Kişkindhā that highly powerful one set up a terrible roar, shaking the earth like to the sound of a kettle-drum.
धारयन् माहिषं रूपं तीक्ष्णशृङ्गो भयावहः। प्रावृषीव महामेघस्तोयपूर्णो नभस्तले॥ ततस्तु द्वारमागम्य किष्किन्धाया महाबलः। ननर्द कम्पयन् भूमिं दुन्दुभिर्दुन्दुभिर्यथा॥