Giving up hopes of success upon the fall of the great car-warrior Shalya, the Kuru army, with its heroes slain and exceedingly confused, were killed with keen arrows. Upon the destruction of the Madra king, O monarch, your warriors all fled away in fear.
तद् भयं स च नः शोको भूय एवाभ्यवर्तत। निराशाच जये तस्मिन्हते शल्ये महारथे॥ हतप्रवीरा विध्वस्ता निकृत्ताश्च शितैः शरैः। मद्रराजे हते राजन् योधास्ते प्राद्रवन् भयात्॥