Beholding that foremost of Asuras, the deities were greatly terrified and began to thing of plans by which they would be able to slay him and not be defeated.
दृष्ट्वैव चासुरश्रेष्ठं देवास्त्रासमुपागमन्। कथमेनं वधिष्यामः कथं न स्यात्पराजयः॥