Thinking that only a short time remained (of their exile) those foremost of men, influenced by rage and hope and by resorting to various exertions and endeavours made their bodies assume almost different shapes.
अवशिष्टमल्पकालं मन्वानाः पुरुषर्षभाः॥ वपुरन्यदिवाकार्षुरुत्साहामर्षचेष्टितैः।