They then looked like ship-wrecked merchants on the vast sea without a raft to save themselves. When their protector was slain by the diadem-decked Arjuna, they were like persons on the vast sea desirous of reaching safely some shore.
आसीद् बुद्धिर्हते कर्णे तव योधस्य कस्यचित्। वणिजो नावि भिन्नायामगाधे विप्लवा इव॥ अपारे पारमिच्छन्तो हते द्वीपे किरीटिना।