It was pasted with red sandal resembling blood and its feathers were beautiful. Beholding that dart like to the fire of dissolution, and dreadful to lords of Dānavas, mountains and Asuras, the creatures were greatly terrified.
असृक्चन्दनदिग्धाङ्गं चारुपत्रं पतत्रिणम्। दानवेन्द्राचलेन्द्राणामसुराणां च दारुणम्॥ तं दीप्तमिव कालाग्निं युगान्ते समुपस्थितम्। दृष्ट्वा सर्वाणि भूतानि परित्रासमुपागमन्॥