Ashtaka said: Who are you, young as you are, as handsome as Indra, as prominent by your own splendour as that of fire? Who are you falling like the foremost ranger of the sky, the sun, driving away the dark masses of clouds?
अष्टक उवाच कस्त्वं युवा वासवतुल्यरूप: स्वतेजसा दीप्यमानो यथाग्निः। पतस्युदीर्णाम्बुधराम्धकारात् खात् खेचराणां प्रवरो यथार्कः॥