Having taken up that best of bows and stringed it, that foremost of all bowmen, that warrior of great energy, intelligence and strength, unable to bear the cutting of his bow by Kritavarman, quickly and furiously rushed against the latter.
तदादाय धनुः श्रेष्ठं वरिष्ठः सर्वधन्विनाम्। आरोग्य च धनुः शीघ्रं महावीर्यो महाबलः॥ अमृष्यमाणो धनुषश्छेदनं कृतवर्मणा। कुपितोऽतिरथः शीघ्रं कृतवर्माणमभ्ययात्॥