Verse 17

¹³So, taking their master's order on their heads with respect, those who loved slaughter made slaughter among the people accordingly. ¹⁴They burned cities and villages, cattle-stations, gardens, fields, orchards, hermitages and mines, and the hamlets and small towns and herding camps and the market towns. ¹⁵Some broke up bridges and walls and gate-towers with mattocks; some, axe in hand, cut down the trees people lived by; some burned the people's shelters with blazing brands. ¹⁶With the world troubled again and again like this by the followers of the Daitya lord, the gods left heaven and went about on the earth unrecognised.

¹⁷Hiranyakasipu, grieving for his dead brother, performed the water rites and the rest and set about comforting his brother's sons.