O hero, telling Daruka "Stay for a moment,” I then in that Danava-destroying battle fixed on my bow-string, my favourite fire-weapon of celestials origin, of blazing splendour of irresistible force, of great effulgence and of bursting energy, incapable of being ever baffled and capable of penetrating into everything.
दारुकं चाब्रुवं वीर मुहूर्त स्थीयतामिति। ततोऽप्रतिहतं दिव्यमभेद्यमतिवीर्यवत्॥ आग्नेयमस्त्रं दयितं सर्वसाहं महाप्रभम्। योजयं तत्रधनुषा दानवान्तकरं रणे॥