I have been bereft of my prowess. Defeated as I am by you, if I am now to act as Indra, I will not be able to command the respect of all creatures. Every one would be busy to bring about disunion, then O lord, they would be the partisans of one or other of us.
इन्द्रत्वे तु स्थितं वीर बलहीनं पराजितम्। आवयोश्च मिथो भेदे प्रयतिष्यन्त्यतन्द्रिताः॥ भेदिते च त्वयि विभो लोको द्वैधमुपेष्यति। द्विधाभूतेषु लोकेषु निश्चितेष्वावयोस्तथा॥