Then taking a hoe, Lakşmaņa dug a spacious pit by the side of the huge-bodied* Virādha. *Mahātmānam-lit.-high-souled. The poet may have applied the epithet in this sense in view of Virādha being really a Gandharva. I have, however, preferred the other sense, as being more in harmony with the character of Virādha as a Rākşasa; and have accordingly rendered the word, huge bodied.
ततः खनित्रमादाय लक्ष्मणः श्वभ्रमुत्तमम्। अखनत् पार्श्वतस्तस्य विराधस्य महात्मनः॥