Then that highly powerful son of Prishata, beheld that foremost of all wielders of weapons that hero of world-wide fame, that son of Pandu, viz., Bhimasena, charged on all sides by the serried and mighty ranks of the enemy:
अभिद्रुतं शस्त्रभृतां वरिष्ठं समन्ततः पाण्डवं लोकवीरः। सैन्येन घोरेण सुसंहितेन दृष्ट्वा बली पार्षतो भीमसेनम्॥