With great difficulty the king was keeping off those beasts of prey that waited there for feasting upon the body. He was suffering great pain.
विचेष्टमानं मह्यां च सुभृशं गाढवेदनम्॥ तं शयानं तथा दृष्ट्वा भूमौ सुरुधिरोक्षितम्।