Like a mighty bird with nails and spreading wings, the lion does not encircle a full enclosure; the buffalo, restrained and fierce, thirsts for pasture — therefore he drags it thus.

The hawk has fastened her claw in heaven; a lion confined (in a cage) plural ces one foot over the otheṛAs a captive buffalo (is) thirsty, (so) Indra thirsted for the Soma, Ga-yatrī brought it to him easily (from heaven).

There hath the strong-winged eagle left his talon, as a snared lion leaves the trap that caught him. Even the wild steer in his thirst is captured: the leather strap still holds his foot entangled.