Having said this, O monarch, the charioteer's son, highly powerful as he was, took up his old victorious bow Vijaya the best of its kind and rubbing again and again its string set it on the bow. Thereupon having assured his army and commanded them to wait in the battle-field, the powerful and highly energetic Karna set Bhargava weapons to his bow-string.
एवमुक्त्वा महाराज सूतपुत्रः प्रतापवान्॥ प्रगृह्य विजयं वीरो धनुः श्रेष्ठं पुरातनम्। सज्यं कृत्वा महाराज संगृह्य च पुनः पुनः॥ संनिवार्य च योधान् स सत्येन शपथेन च। प्रायोजयदमेयात्मा भार्गवास्त्रं महाबलः॥