O foremost of monarchs, the Asuras, though they were elder brothers of the Devas and though they in affluence were, vanquished by the Devas by mean of Stratagem.
भ्रातरः पूर्वजाताश्च सुसमृद्धाश्च सर्वशः। निकृत्या निर्जिता देवैरसुराः पार्थिवर्षभ॥