I had no hope of success, O Sanjaya, when I heard that while displaying various modes of atiаck and defence in a club-fight, he had been unjustly slain through the counsels of Krishna.
यदाश्रौषं विविधांश्चित्रमार्गान् गदायुद्धे मण्डलशश्चरन्तम्। मिथ्या हतं वासुदेवस्य बुद्ध्या तदा नाशंसे विजयाय संजय॥