“O monarch, in as much as, today you have honoured me with the general-ship of this army, immediately after that foremost of the Kauravas, the son of the river (Ganga).
यत् कौरवाणामृषभादापगेयादनन्तरम्। सैनापत्येन यद् राजन् मामद्य कृतवानसि॥