The fight began on the first day of the month of Kartika, and those two illustrious heroes fought on continuously without food, and without intermission of day or night till the thirteenth day. It was on the night of the fourteenth day, the Magadha king stopped from fatigue.
कार्तिकस्य तु मासस्य प्रवृत्तं प्रथमेऽहनि। अनाहारं दिवारात्रमविश्रान्तमवर्तत॥ तद् वृत्तं तु त्रयोदश्यां समवेतं महात्मनोः। चतुर्दश्यां निशायां तु निवृत्तो मागध: क्लमात्॥