In the large and populous city of Shakala a Rakshasa woman used to sing on every fourteenth day of the dark half of the month in accompaniment with a drum.
तत्र स्म राक्षसी गाति सदा कृष्णचतुर्दशीम्॥ नगरे शाकले स्फीते आहत्य निशि दुन्दुभि।