Did not desert the fight having formed a laudable determination (to fight to the last); and those foremost of car-warriors began to slay (the hostile troop) to the best o their energies.
आर्यां युद्धे मतिं कृत्वा न त्यजन्ति स्म संयुगम्। यथोत्साहं तु समरे निजघ्नुस्तावका रणे॥