Why do you, like a frog living in a well, not understand the might of this vast army of assembled monarchs which is hard to be vanquished and which, shining as a celestial army, is protected by kings as heaven itself by the gods? Protected by the kings of the East, West, South, and North, of the Shalvas along with the Matsya's, the Kurus of the middle countries, the Mlecchas, the Pulindas, the Dravidas, the Andhras, and the Kanchis, Why do you wish to fight, o fool of little understanding, with me in the midst of this army of elephants, this army composed of various races and which in battle is as incapable of being crossed over as the waves of the Ganga.
किं दर्दुरः कूपशयो यथेमां न बुध्यसे राजचमूं समेताम्। दुराधर्षां देवचमूप्रकाशां गुप्तां नरेन्द्रस्त्रिदशैरिव द्याम्॥ काम्बोजशकैः खशैश्च। म्लेंच्छैः पुलिन्दैईविडान्ध्रकाश्च्यैः॥ नानाजनौघं युधि सम्प्रवृद्धं गाङ्गं यथा वेगमपारणीयम्। मां च स्थितं नागबलस्य मध्ये युयुत्ससे मन्द किमल्पबुद्धे॥