Hindering the way-fare it was awaiting those two brothers. And proceeding a Krosa, they espied that fearful, grim-visaged, headless demon, hindering all creatures with its arms, terrible-looking and appearing like a kabandha from its very situation,
स्थितमावृत्य पन्थानं तयोभ्रांत्रोः प्रपन्नयोः। अथ तं समतिक्रम्य क्रोशमात्रं ददर्शतुः॥ महान्तं दारुणं भीमं कबन्धं भुजसंवृतम्। कबन्धमिव संस्थानादतिघोरप्रदर्शनम् ॥