The son of Pandu is highly intelligent, endued with strength, heroic, accomplished in the use of weapons, possessed of great agility and lightness; he is capable of shooting his arrows to a great distance, and is firm in shooting them and is conversant with the nature of omens.
मनस्वी बलवाञ्छूरः कृतास्त्रो लघुविक्रमः। दूरपाती दृढेषुश्च निमित्तज्ञश्च पाण्डवः॥