1. Ask the messenger, O deer, about my deeds
Seeking battle, my foes were the first to offend

2. Ask them how they fared when I did contend
If doubt still lingers in your mind from what I said

3. We came in the dark, on dappled steeds we rode
With girded loins, as if with cough we were bestowed

4. Among us were tyrants, obstinate and proud
Fierce in war, with hanging reins uncontrolled

5. When they lit the fires of death in the fray
With blade tips glittering, tempered sharp to slay

6. A lion of Abs, black in hue, doused the blaze
With a white sword, polished bright in its sheath to lay

7. Unleashed, it spills blood copiously like a flood
Slicing mountains in twain, no defense withstood

8. The darker my hand when I raise it aloft
His fangs glisten like the crescent moon aloft

9. Gripped in my right hand, he vies with death in speed
On my left, mortality he outstrips indeed

10. I pledged you a true promise in word and deed
Matching speech with action, the claim I stamped and sealed

11.
Scattering ranks of riders with a strike or two

12. Heroes quake and tremble at the sight of me and you
Never has a brave warrior of war withdrawn

13. With my likeness not placed as a shield before him soon
With dread of my sword, the earth I’ve filled

14. Leaving people talking in wonder, astonished and thrilled
And if I failed my promise to you, they would say