O Yudhishthira, he thought of some means to slay him. And the chief among the gods who was valiant, famous as a gifted being of unfailing judgment and intelligent, fixed on a plan for slaying the three-headed one.
चिन्तयामास तस्यैव वधोपायं युधिष्ठिर। स तूष्र्णी चिन्तयन् वीरो देवराजः प्रतापवान्।॥ विनिश्चितमतिर्धीमान् वधे त्रिशिरसोऽभवत्।