Determining in his mind the extent of the Wind's might and seeing his ownself to be inferior to the god, the Shalmali began to say aside,
दर्शयिष्यामि ते तेजस्ततो रात्रिरुपागमत्। अथ निश्चित्य मनसा शाल्मलिर्वातकारितम्॥