Then commenced a fierce and sanguinary and hair-stirring engagement between your army and the army of the sons of Pandu like that between the celestials and the Danavas.
तद् युद्धमभवद् घोरं सुमहल्लोमहर्षणम्। त्वदीयैः पाण्डुपुत्राणां देवानामिव दानवैः॥