Lakshmana was engaged in a terrible combat with Kshatradeva, as, O monarch, Vishnu was, in days of yore, engaged with the Daitya Hiranyakashipu.
लक्ष्मणः क्षत्रदेवेन विमर्दमकरोद् भृशम्। यथा विष्णुः पुरा राजन् हिरण्याक्षेण संयुगे॥