You, O Shakra, have encompassed the dominion of the heaven and the earth and the sky by the strength of your own arms, but even thus how could Vritra (of old) wrest from you the sovereignty of the celestial regions?
अग्नि उवाच दिवं राजन् पृथिवीं च सर्वा संवेष्टयेस्त्वं स्वबलेनैव शक्र। एवंविधस्येह सतस्तवासौ कथं वृत्रस्त्रिदिवं प्राग् जहा॥