With voice deep as the mutterings of the clouds or of a bull roaring in joy, the highly powerful Duryodhana then, armed with his mace, asked the Parthas for battle.
स मेघनिनदो हर्षनर्दन्निव न गोवृषः। आजुहाव ततः पार्थान् गदया युधि वीर्यवान्॥