Meanwhile, seeing the gods reducer and emaciated on account of the initiation they were undergoing, a race of Danavas, of the name of Khalins, of statures as gigantic as mountains, wished to kill them.
यजमानांस्तु तान् दृष्ट्वा सर्वान् दीक्षानुकर्शितान्। हन्तुमैच्छन्त शैलाभाः खलिनो नाम दानवाः॥