Those two heroes, of noble extraction both enhancers of the fame of the Kurus and the Vrishnis respectively, began to fight with each other like two tigers fighting with claws or two elephants fighting with their tusks.
उत्तमाभिजनौ वीरौ कुरुवृष्णियशस्करौ। तौ नखैरिव शार्दूलौ दन्तैरिव महाद्विपौ॥