Those heroic Dänavas, the Kālakeyas, were greatly powerful, irrepressible, and proud of the boons conferred on them. And fighting with them perpetually for a year, you did bring them under your control, O lord, O slayer of foes, and learn from them the science o varied illusions, O king of the Rākşasas.
अक्षया बलवन्तश्च शूरा लब्धवराः पुनः। त्वया संवत्सरं युद्ध्वा समरे दानवा विभो॥ स्वबलं समुपाश्रित्य नीता वशमरिन्दम। मायाश्चाधिगतास्तत्र वयो वै राक्षसाधिप॥