The powerful and worshipful Skanda filled with joy, at last killed Taraka, the chief of the Daityas, cndued with great energy and prowess and surrounded in that battle, by a hundred thousand heroic and powerful Daityas.
ततः प्रीतो महासेनो जधान भगवान् प्रभुः। दैत्येन्द्रं तारकं नाम महाबलपराक्रमम्॥