Thus after having regained their dead, they (the Daityas), who attained to their ascetic success by means of great devotion and who also enhanced the terrors of all the celestials, now began to oppress all the different worlds. O monarch, there had never been the slightest diminution of their number in the field of battle.
तां प्राप्य तेपुनस्तास्तु लोकान् सर्वान् बबाधिरे॥ महता तपसा सिद्धाः सुराणां भय वर्धना। न तेषामभवद् राजन् क्षयो युद्धे कदाचन॥