sarva-deva-gaṇa - by all the different demigods; upetaḥ - joined; mahendraḥ - Mahendra, the King of heaven, Indra; gurum - his spiritual master; anvayāt - followed; sura - of the demigods; asura - and of the demons; vināśaḥ - causing destruction; abhūt - there was; samaraḥ - a fight; tārakā-mayaḥ - simply because of Tārā, a woman, the wife of Bṛhaspati.

King Indra, accompanied by all kinds of demigods, joined the side of Bṛhaspati. Thus there was a great fight, destroying both demons and demigods, only for the sake of Tārā, Bṛhaspati’s wife.