Verse 23

¹⁶Bali, Virocana's son, was the commander of the demons' army in that fight. He had a car named Vaihayasa, made by Maya, that went wherever he wished, ¹⁷fitted with everything a war could ask and full of every wonder, master; past reasoning, past describing, seen at one moment and not to be seen at the next. ¹⁸Seated in that finest of cars, ringed by the leaders of all his companies, with his fine whisks and his splendid parasol, he shone like the moon rising. ¹⁹All about him in their cars were the demon lords of the troops: Namuci, Sambara, Bana, Vipracitti, Ayomukha, ²⁰Dvimurdha, Kalanabha, then Praheti, Heti, Ilvala, Sakuni, Bhutasantapa, Vajradamstra, Virocana,

²¹Hayagriva, Sankusiras, Kapila, Meghadundubhi, Taraka, Cakradrk, Sumbha, Nisumbha, Jambha, Utkala, ²²Arista and Aristanemi, and Maya lord of the three cities, and others, the Pauloma and Kaleya folk, the Nivatakavacas and the rest. ²³They had got no share of the soma and only a share of the trouble. All of these had beaten the deathless ones many a time at the head of battle.