Verse 65

⁶⁵who can turn aside by fate what is laid down for himself or for another, for either of them. Then he, with his own powers, put together for Sambhu what is made of the ground. ⁶⁶Out of dharma, knowledge, turning away, plenty, austerity, learning, action and the rest he made the chariot, the driver, the banner, the horses, the bow, the armour, the arrows and all of it. ⁶⁷Armed and standing on the chariot, the Lord took up the arrow and the bow; and setting the arrow to the bow, in the hour called Abhijit, ⁶⁸with it Hara burnt the three cities that could not be broken into, king. In the sky the kettledrums sounded, and it was crowded with hundreds of flying cars.

⁶⁹The gods, the sages, the fathers and the lords of the perfected showered heaps of flowers, crying victory; and the companies of apsarases sang and danced for gladness. ⁷⁰So, having burnt the three cities, king, the revered one who destroys cities went back to his own place, praised by Brahma and the rest. ⁷¹Such are the feats of this Hari, teacher of the world, who by his own maya makes a mock of himself in the world of men: feats sung by the sages, which make the world clean. What else should I speak of?