Intoxicated with the pride of beauty, prowess, lineage, knowledge, wealth and youth, they were like the Himalayan elephants mad in the season of rut. Staring at one another with jealousy and being influenced by the god of desire, they suddenly rose up from their royal seats, each exclaiming, “Krishna will be mine."
रूपेण वीर्येण कुलेन चैव शीलेन वित्तेन च यौवनेन। समिद्धदर्पा मदवेगभिन्ना मत्ता यथा हैमवता गजेन्द्राः॥ परस्परं स्पर्धया प्रेक्षमाणाः संकल्पजेनाभिपरिप्लुताङ्गाः। कृष्णा ममैवेत्यभिभाषमाणा नृपासनेभ्यः सहसोदतिष्ठन्॥