And he, the great Indra, with a glad heart having greeted the assembled rulers of the world each with suitable words, said to them, with a view to cutwit Nahusha.
स तान् यथावच्च हि लोकपालान् समेत्य वै प्रीतमना महेन्द्रः। उवाच चैनान प्रतिभाष्य शक्रः संचोदयिष्यन्नहुषस्यान्तरेण॥