Inflamed with wrath, Bhima seized the Rakshasas by his arms as one elephant in rut seizes another. The mighty Rakshasas also in his turn seized his adversary, but that foremost of all warriors Bhimasena threw the cannibal down with violence.
अभिपद्य च बाहुभ्यां प्रत्यगृहणादमर्षितः। मातङ्गमिव मातङ्गः प्रभिन्नकरटामुखम्॥ स चाप्येनं ततो रक्षः प्रतिजग्राह वीर्यवान्। तमाक्षिपद् भीमसेनो बलेन बलिनां वरः॥