O charioteer, our opponents have already heen consumed by Keshava and Phalguna. In defeating them again, we have only been (secondarily) instrumental. Slaying them already slain by that foremost of men, viz., the son of the celestial chief, we have but slain the slain.
हतान् निहन्मेह नरर्षभेण वयं सुरेशात्मसमुद्भवेन॥