Seeing Karna, the Panchalas are all filled with fright even like the kine on seeing a lion. Like men entering into the gaping jaws of Death the Prabhadrakas, O king, have confronted Karna.
तान् सूदयित्वाहमपास्य कर्ण दुष्टुं भवन्तं त्वतयाभियातः। सर्वेपञ्चाला झुद्विजन्ते स्म कर्णं दृष्ट्वा गाव: केसरिणं यथैव॥