विरथस्तु गदां गृह्य माली नक्तंचरोत्तमः। आपुप्लुवे गदापाणिगिर्यग्रादिव केसरी॥
virathastu gadāṃ gṛhya mālī naktaṃcarottamaḥ| āpupluve gadāpāṇigiryagrādiva kesarī||
English Meaning
Then that foremost of night-rangers, on being deprived of his car, sprang forward, mace in hand, even as lion bounds up from the brow of a hillock.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)