Then all those combatants skilled in fighting, placing the ruler Sindhus at their back and impelled by a desire for slaying Arjuna and Krishna, dauntlessly surrounded Partha, that hero versed in all modes of warfare., who then appeared to dance in the terrace of this chariot, emitting fierce sounds, with his bow-string and his palms and resembling the Destroyer himself with mouth agape.
नृत्यन्तं रथमार्गेषु धनुर्ध्यातलनिःस्वनैः। संग्रामकोविदं पार्थ सर्वे युद्धविशारदाः॥ अभीताः पर्यवर्तन्त व्यादितास्यमिवान्तकम्। सैन्धवं पृष्ठतः कृत्वा जिघांसन्तोऽच्युतार्जुनौ॥