छिन्नैकबाहु: परिघेण वृत्र: संरब्ध आसाद्य गृहीतवज्रम् । हनौ तताडेन्द्रमथामरेभं वज्रं च हस्तान्न्यपतन्मघोन: ॥ ४ ॥
chinnaika-bahuh parighena vrtrah samrabdha asadya grhita-vajram hanau tatadendram athamarebham vajram ca hastan nyapatan maghonah
- chinna
- cut off
- eka
- one
- bahuh
- whose arm
- parighena
- with a mace of iron
- vrtrah
- Vrtrasura
- samrabdhah
- being very angry
- asadya
- reaching
- grhita
- taking up
- vajram
- the thunderbolt
- hanau
- on the jaw
- tatada
- struck
- indram
- Lord Indra
- atha
- also
- amara-ibham
- his elephant
- vajram
- the thunderbolt
- ca
- and
- hastat
- from the hand
- nyapatat
- fell
- maghonah
- of King Indra.
Although one of his arms was severed from his body, Vrtrasura angrily approached King Indra and struck him on the jaw with an iron mace. He also struck the elephant that carried Indra. Thus Indra dropped the thunderbolt from his hand.