With its two forelegs and its trunk contracted and with its eyes rolling and inflamed with fury, the elephant seemed to consume the son of Pandu. It then shattered to pieces the car of Vrikodara together with the steeds harnessed thereto. Thereat running on his legs Bhima hid himself underneath body of the elephant.
स नागप्रवरो भीमं सहसा समुपाद्रवत्। चरणाभ्यामथो द्वाभ्यां संहतेन करेण च॥ व्यावृत्तनयनः क्रुद्धः प्रमथनिव पाण्डवम्। वृकोदररथं साश्चमविशेषमचूर्णयत्॥