What office will be performed by Arjuna shining in celestial grace, who, having stayed for five years in the abode of the thousandeyed deity, acquired by his superhuman prowess, the art of using arms along with all the celestial weapons, and who is me-seems like the Rudra, thirteenth of the Adityas, ninth of the Vasus and the tenth of the Grahas, whose arms are symmetrical and long, having the skin rendered hard by repeated strokes of the bow string and knobs on which appear like the humps of bulls and who is the foremost of warriors as the Himavata of mountains, the sea of rivers, Shakra of the gods, Havyavahak (fire) of the Vasus, the tiger of the beasts, Garuda of the winged tribes.
उषित्वा पञ्च वर्षाणि सहस्राक्षस्य वेश्मनि। अस्त्रयोगं समासाद्य स्ववीर्यान्मानुषाद्भुतम्। दिव्यान्यस्त्राणि चाप्तानि देवरूपेण भास्वता॥ यं मन्ये द्वादशं रुद्रमादित्यानां त्रयोदशम्। वसूनां नवमं मन्ये ग्रहाणां दशमं तथा॥ यस्य बाहू समौ दी? ज्याघातकठिनत्वचौ। दक्षिणे चैव सव्ये च गवामिव वहः कृतः॥ हिमवानिव शैलानां समुद्रः सरितामिव। त्रिदशानां यथा शक्रो वसूनामिव हव्यवाट्॥ मृगाणामिव शार्दूलो गरुडः पततामिव। वरः संन्यमानानां सोऽर्जुनः किं करिष्यति॥