On that host being sore pressed at its back by Padmanabha,* Mālyavăn turned back even as the ocean does on meeting with its shore. *Lit. the lotus-naveled-a name of Visnu.
हन्यमाने बले तस्मिन्पद्मनाभेन पृष्ठतः। माल्यवान्संनिवृत्तोऽथ वेलामेत्य इवार्णवः॥