But he could not make the latter tremble in battle before him, and so again pierced him with many arrows. Then the son of Phalguna cut off the bow of the Kosala king once more; and he struck him with thirty shafts furnished with wings of the Kanka feather. Thereupon that prince Brihadbala taking up another bow, and waxing irascible, pierced with many an arrow the son of Phalguna. Indeed, O afflicter of enemies, the battle, that took place for the sake of Bhishma, between them both, O king, inflamed with anger and both well versed in all manner of warfare, was like that between Bali and Vasava in the days of yore on the occasion of the war between the celestial and the Asuras.
नाकम्पयत संग्रामे विव्याध च पुनः शरैः। कौसल्यस्य धनुश्चापि पुनश्चिच्छेद फाल्गुनिः॥ आजघान शरैश्चापि त्रिंशता कङ्कपत्रिभिः। सोऽन्यत् कार्मुकमादाय राजपुत्रो बृहद्बलः॥ फाल्गुनिं समरे क्रुद्धो विव्याध बहुभिः शरैः। तयोर्युद्धं समभवद् भीष्महेतोः परंतप॥ संरब्धयोर्महाराज समरे चित्रयोधिनोः। यथा देवासुरे युद्धे बलिवासवयोरभूत्॥