Contracted, O monarch, like a piece of hide held over a blazing fire. Beholding his own army thus routed by the highly inteiligent Bhagadatta,
संचुकोच महाराज चर्मेवाग्नौ समाहितम्। भग्नं तु स्वबलं दृष्ट्वा भगदत्तेन धीमता॥