O hero, O lord, O descendant of Kuru, ascending on his beautiful, illusive and best of all chariots, decked with gold and furnished with flags and flag-staffs and (equipped) with quivers, the illustrious and the mighty Shalva began to discharge his arrows at Pradyumna.
तस्य मायामयो वीर रथो हेमपरिष्कृतः। सपताकः सध्वजश्च सानुकर्षः स तूणवान्॥ स तं रथवरं श्रीमान् समारुह्य किल प्रभो। मुमोच बाणान् कौरव्य प्रद्युम्नाय महाबलः॥