the earth.  And they also, wounded by my iron arrows having the speed of the thunder, began, O monarch, to go about, being urged by destiny.  Then ascending to the sky, Matali, as if falling in front, swiftly descended to the earth, on that chariot of solar resplendence.  Then, O Bharata, environed me sixty thousand cars belonging to those wrathful ones eager to battle with me.  And with sharpened shafts graced with feathers of the vulture, I destroyed those (cars).  At this, thinking, ’These our hosts are incapable of being vanquished by mortals, they became engaged in the conflict, like unto the surges of the sea.’  Thereupon I gradually began to fix (on the string) unearthly weapons.  At this, thousands of weapons (shot) by those wonderfully warring charioteers, by degrees opposed my unearthly arms and in the field I saw hundreds and thousands of mighty (demons) ranging on their cars, in various manoeuvres.  And being furnished with variegated mail and standards and diverse ornaments, they delighted my mind.  And in the conflict I could not afflict them by showers of shafts, but they did not afflict me.  And being afflicted by those innumerable ones, equipped in weapons and skilled in fight, I was pained in that mighty encounter and a terrible fear seized me.  Thereupon collecting (my energies) in fight, I (bowed down) unto that god of gods, Raudra, and saying, ’May welfare attend on all beings!’ I fixed that mighty weapon which, celebrated under the name of Raudra, is the destroyer of all foes.  Then I beheld a male person having three heads, nine eyes, three faces, and six arms.  And his hair was flaming like fire or the sun.  And, O slayer of foes, for his dress, he had mighty serpents, putting out their tongues.  And saying, O best of the Bharatas, the dreadful and eternal Raudra, I being free from fear, set it on the Gandiva; and, bowing unto the three-eyed Sarva of immeasurable energy, let go (the weapon), with the object of vanquishing those foremost of the Danavas, O Bharata.  And, O lord of men, as soon as it had been hurled, there appeared on the scene by thousands, forms of deer, and of lions, and of tigers, and of bears and of buffaloes, and of serpents, and of kine, and of sarabhas, and of elephants, and of apes in multitudes, and of bulls, and of boars, and of cats, and of dogs, and of spectres, and of all the Bhurundas, and of vultures, and of Garudas, of chamaras, and of all the leopards, and of mountains, and of seas, and of celestials, and of sages, and of all the Gandharvas, and of ghosts with the Yakshas, and of the haters of the gods, (Asuras), and of the Guhyakas in the field, and of the Nairitas and of elephant-mouthed sharks, and of owls, and of beings having the forms of fishes and horses, and of beings bearing swords and various other weapons, and of Rakshasas wielding maces and clubs.  And on that weapon being hurled all the universe became filled with these as well as many others wearing various shapes.  And again and again wounded by beings