O monarch, then that foremost of elephants being struck with the hook resembled with winged mountains of yore. It struck panic into the hearts of the enemy, like to what the merchants (on board) experience when the (tempest-tossed) sea rushes against them.
स नागराज: प्रवराड्कुशाहतः पुरा सपक्षोऽद्रिवरो यथा नृप। भयं तदा रिपुषु समादधद् भृशं वणिग्जनानां क्षुभितो यथार्णवः॥