Even like (the roars and the vehemence) displayed by elephants on being attacked by lions, the roars, and the vehemence of the nightrangers and their elephants, sore assailed by the Primaeval Lion,* were equal. *Vişnu as a man-lion had formerly taken the conceit out of Hiranyakasipu the Asura king-and slain him, to rid his devotee Prahlada of his mortal foc in the from of a father.
सिंहार्दितानामिव कुञ्जराणां निशाचराणां सह कुञ्जराणाम्। रवाश्च वेगाश्च समं बभूवुः पुराणसिंहेन विमर्दितानाम्॥