As locusts (flood) a field, knots (throng) about a flame, gad-flies (cluster) around a pot of honey, or makaras (range) in the sea, so the shafts shot by the bows of the Rākṣasa, having (the energy of) the thunder-bolt and endowed with (the velocity of) the wind or thought, pierce Hari as if at the universal dissolution.
शलभा इव केदारं मशका इव पावकम्। यथामृतघटं दंशा मकरा इव चार्णवम्॥ तथा रक्षोधनुर्मुक्ता वज्रानिलमनोजवाः। हरिं विशन्ति स्म शरा लोका इव विपर्यये।४।।