For a short while only, O monarch, that engagement was agreeable to look at; after which it became like the battle of demented persons in which no consideration was made in favour of any one.
मुहूर्तमिव तद् युद्धमासीन्मधुरदर्शनम्। तत उन्मत्तवद् राजन् निर्मर्यादमवर्तत॥