Matali answered O Partha, formerly it was the city of our lord of the gods. (But) afterwards the gods were expciled from here by the Nivatakavachas.
मातलिरुवाच आसीदिदं पुरा पार्थ देवराजस्य नः पुरम्। ततो निवातकवचैरितः प्रच्याविताः सुराः॥