71-72. When Daitya Mahisa was turned away, Danava Sumbha bit his lips sternly and knitted his eyebrows making the whole face (appear) crooked. He thrashed one of the hands with the other and took up a terrible bow. Stringing the bow (and drawing) he released hundreds of very terrible arrows.
73-76. He fought in a wonderfully diverse manner. He hit hard with his fists. Then the Daitya hit Vi?riu and Garuda with many arrows resembling the flames of blazing fires, discharged without any abstacle. On being afflicted much by the arrows of the leading Daitya, Visnu took up a Bhusundi missile resembling the Lord of Death. With that he pounded to powder the shoulder bone of Sumbha in the course of the battle, the collar bone that shone like a mountain. He smashed his face also. With arrows drawn as far as the ear and having the colour and refulgence of fire and the sun, he hit them. With three arrows, he hit Kumbha’s arm, the head of the charioteer with sixty-two arrows and with ten arrows he hit the flagstaff of the Daitya. On being hit by them and frustrated by them, the leading Daitya was smeared with the blood that flowed (from his body). He appeared to be losing his courage. Then the Lord with a conch, lotus and Sarnga bow in his hands spoke to him.
77 . “O inauspicious Sumbha, you are destined to be easily killed in a very few days by a woman. You do not deserve to be killed by me, O deluded one. It is futile.” Thereupon that Danava Sumbha went away.
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