Vṛtrāsura, very powerful and courageous, placed his lower jaw on the ground and his upper jaw in the sky. With a mouth deep like the sky, with a fearsome, snake-like tongue, with deadly teeth, he seemed to devour the entire universe. Thus assuming a gigantic body, the great demon Vṛtrāsura, shaking the mountains, crushing the earth with his legs as if he were the Himalayas walking about, came before Indra and swallowed him and Airāvata, his carrier, just as a big python might swallow an elephant. With a mouth like the sky, with a fearsome tongue like a snake, crushing the earth with his feet, he quickly swallowed Indra.