The Kuru hero, smiling the while, fought with that youth who took after an angry snake. The mighty-armed Dhananjaya, glad as he was in seeing the courage of Dhritavarman, did not take his life.
तं पन्नगमिव क्रुद्धं कुरुवीरः स्मयन्निवा प्रीतिपूर्वं महाबाहुः प्राणैर्न व्यपरोपयत्॥