That nocturnal battle between the god-like combatants raged furiously like a tempest. The rush of arrows formed its fierce winds, the mighty car-warriors and elephants its clouds, the shafts its showers and the blood (of the combatants and the animals) its torrent of rain.
महद् बलं व्यूढरथाश्वनागं सुरासुव्यहूसमं बभूवा तच्छक्तिसंघाकुलचण्डवातं महारथानं गजवाजिघोषम्॥