That tormentor of foes, who in a defiant spirit challenged even the son of Pulastya, the dispenser of wealth, to a single combat and who encountering the Yakshas and the Rakshasas at the lotus lake (of Kubera) destroyed them (wholesale) has been described by you as seized with fear and dismay. All this I am desirous of hearing; great indeed is my curiosity.
पौलस्त्यंधनदं युद्धे च आह्वयति दर्पितः। नलिन्यां कदनं कृत्वा निहन्ता यक्षरक्षसाम्॥ तं शंससि भयाविष्टमापन्नमरिसूदनम्। एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं परं कौतूहलं हि मे॥ वैशम्पायन उवाच बह्वाश्चर्ये वने तेषां वसतामुग्धन्विनाम्। प्राप्तानामाश्रमाद् राजन् राजर्षवृषपर्वणः॥