Then Arjuna and Achyuta (Krishna) thus spoke to Agni in joy, “O illustrious one, furnished ass we are now with great weapons and well conversant with their use and possessed as we are of cars with flats and flatstaff, we are now able to fight even with all the celestial and the Asuras put together, not to speak of the wielder of thunder (Indra) who desire to fight for the sake of the Naga Takshaka.
ततः पावकमबूतां प्रहृष्टावर्जुनाच्युतौ। कृतास्त्रौ शस्त्रसम्पन्नौ रथिनौ ध्वजिनावपि॥ कल्यौ स्वो भगवन् योद्धमपि सर्वैः सुरासुरैः। किं पुनर्वज्रिणैकेन पन्नगार्थे युयुत्सता॥