Arjuna is free from covetousness, intelligent, bashful, forbearing, handsome, powerful, endowed with well-developed limbs, respectful to the elders, heroic, amiable and devoted to truth; the feats of that one of fierce deeds even the gods applaud; that one of puissant energy slew Nivatakavachas and also the Kalakeyas; by him were the opponents of the great Indra, the dwellers of the golden cities, viz., the Paulamas slain with their followers, within the twinkling of any eye; that lord gives assurance of safety to those who seek to be protected from their enemies. Alas, today, we have not been competent through fear, to save the son even of that one!
अलुब्धो मतिमान् ह्रीमान् क्षमावान् रूपवान् बली। वपुष्मान् मानकृद् वीरः प्रियः सत्यपराक्रमः॥ यस्य श्लाघन्ति विबुधाः कर्माण्यूर्जितकर्मणः। निवातकवचाञ्जने कालकेयांश्च वीर्यवान्॥ महेन्द्रशत्रवो येन हिरण्यपुरवासिनः। अक्ष्णोनिमेषमात्रेण पौलोमाः सगणा हताः॥ परेभ्योऽप्यभयार्थिभ्यो यो ददात्यभयं विभुः। तस्यास्माभिर्न शकितस्त्रातुमप्यात्मजो बली॥