O descendant of the Bharata race, O monarch, on account of the innumerable acts of both myself as well as of the son, O Pritha, that this encounter between me and Arjuna had taken place; else this would not have occurred.
बहुत्वान्मम कार्याणां तथा पार्थस्य भारत। नाभूत् समागमो राजन् मम चैवार्जुनस्य च॥