Asuras

Indra devoured the pāṭā plant in order to slay the Asuras;

Indra placed thee in his arms to spread thee against the Asuras.

By that whereby the gods became more glorious than the Asuras — by that, O gods, was this done;

There, asuras of great body, who are perpetually hungry and have been so permitted by Brahmā, ever seize upon shadows.

"That army, protected by Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa and by Sugrīva, has become impossible to assail even by all the gods and asuras together.

"Even if the gods, gandharvas, and dānavas were to attack me, I would never give up Sītā — not even out of fear from all the worlds.

The Asuras without weapons, the godless — with thy discus, shear them away, O Ṛjīṣin.

The riches, the sun-wealth that thou didst bring away from the Asuras, O Indra — increase, O Maghavan, the wealth of this singer, and of those who have trimmed the sacred grass for thee.

When the gods came, having slain the Asuras, guarding their divine sovereignty —

The most glorious, sublimely borne, the mightiest winner of prizes — the true law of heaven set firm in its foundation — he was born as light, the slayer of enemies, the slayer of Vṛtra, the greatest slayer of Dasyus, the slayer of Asuras, the slayer of rivals.

Indra's two arms, strong, youthful, irresistible, of fine aspect, unyielding — yoke those two first when the moment of union arrives, with which the great power of the Asuras was conquered.

224[214M] // Whatever food is presented that has been released from both hands, that the evil-minded Asuras forcibly plunder.