Sanjaya said Seeing that Kuru's Chief lying on the earth Ashvatthaman, O best of the Bharatas, bewailed thus piteously,-O foremost of kings, all people recognised you as the best of all bowmen! People also said that in mace fight you, a disciple of Shankarshana, were like Kuvera himself.
संजय उवाच तं शयानं कुरुश्रेष्ठं ततो भरतसत्तम। अश्वत्थामा समालोक्य करुणं पर्यदेवयत्॥ आहुस्त्वां राजशार्दूल मुख्यं सर्वधनुष्यताम्। धनाध्यक्षोपमं युद्धे शिष्यं संकर्षणस्य च॥