Here the Danavas, endued with great spirit and energy, practicing a thousand kind of different illusions, inhabit. They were, in the days of old, heroes who had received the grant of boons.
अत्र मायासहस्राणि विकुर्वाणा महौजसः। दानवा निवसन्ति स्म शूरा दत्तवराः पुरा॥