Being under your powerful protection Sikhandin encountered him and with his straight shafts slew that foremost of men. O mighty one, as the Asura Vritra courted his death obtaining Vasava for his foe, so having obtained you (as his foe) there lies on a bed of arrows that grandsire (wrapt in eternal sleep).
तं शिखण्डी समासाद्य त्वया गुप्तो महाव्रतम्॥ जघान पुरुषव्याघ्रं शरैः संनतपूर्वभिः। स एष पतितः शेते शरतल्पे पितामहः॥ त्वां प्राप्य पुरुषव्याघ्र वृत्रः प्राप्येव वासवम्।