Formerly the principal Danavas, possessed by anger and cupidity, and hundreds of powerful Asuras having Naraka for their first, elated with power, and numberless other Danavas invincible in battle, became highly jealous of the peerless prosperity of the gods.
पुरा दानवमुख्या हि क्रोधलोभसमन्विताः। बलेन मत्ता शतशो नरकाद्या महासुराः॥ तथैव चान्ये बहवो दानवा युद्धदुर्मदाः। न सहन्ते स्म देवानां समृद्धिं तामनुत्तमाम्॥