That hero and great bowman, that chief of many car-divisions, that heroic warrior who has been killed by Arjuna in battle, that warrior whom, ye sons of Pandu, you knew as the son of the charioteer Radha, that hero who shone in the midst of his army like the Sun himself, who fought with all of you and your followers, who shone as he commanded the vast army of Duryodhana, who had no equal on Earth in energy, that hero who preferred glory to life, that brave warrior firm in truth and never fatigued with exertion, was your eldest brother! Offer oblations of water to that eldest brother of yours who was born of me by the Sun! That hero was born with a pair of earrings and clad in armour, and took after the Sun-God himself in effulgence.
यः स वीरो महेष्वासो रथयूथपयूथपः॥ अर्जुनेनं जित: संख्ये वीरलक्षणलक्षितः। यं सूतपुत्रं मन्यध्वं राधेयमिति पाण्डवाः॥ यो व्यराजच भूमध्ये दिवाकर इव प्रभुः। प्रत्ययुध्यत वः सर्वान् पुरा यः सपदानुगान्॥ दुर्योधनबलं सर्वं यः प्रकर्षन् व्यरोचत। यस्य नास्ति समो वीर्ये पृथिव्यामपि पार्थिवः॥ योऽवृणीत यशः शूरः प्राणैरपि सदा भुवि। कर्णस्य सत्यसंधस्य संग्रामेष्वपलायिनः॥ कुरुध्वमुदकं तस्य भ्रातुरकिष्टकर्मणः। स हि वः पूर्वजो भ्राता भास्करान्मय्यजायत॥ कुण्डली कवची शूरो दिवाकरसमप्रभः।