When that foremost of Daityas was killed, even then Sakra (Indra) fled away in fear to take shelter in a lake, thinking that the Vajra had not been hurled from his hands and that Vitra had not (really) been killed.
तस्मिन् हते दैत्यवरे भयातः शक्रः प्रदुद्राव सरः प्रवेष्टुम्। वज्रं स मेने न कराद् विमुक्तं वृत्रं भयाच्चापि हतं न मेने॥