Then, O mighty monarch, those warriors, who were being thus slaughtered in the battle, did not abandon the son of Pandu, even as the insects, being burnt by the blazing fire, do not leave it.
ते हन्यमानाः समरे नाजहुः पाण्डवं रणे। हन्यमाना महाराज शलभा इव पावकम्॥