Like two elephants fighting with each other with the ends of their tusks, of like two bulls with their horns, those two high-souled and foremost warriors of the Kuru and the Satvata races, fought with each other, sometimes twining each other with their arms, sometimes striking each other with their heads, sometimes binding each other with their legs, sometimes slaping their arm-pits, sometimes scraching each other with their nails, sometimes embracing each other tightly, sometimes twining their legs round each others loins, sometimes rolling on the ground, sometimes going forward and sometime falling back, sometimes challenging each other, sometimes throwing each other down, sometimes rising up and sometimes jumping on high.
द्विपाविव विषाणाग्रैः शृङ्गैरिव महर्षभौ। भुजयोक्त्रावबन्धैश्च शिरोभ्यां चावघातनैः॥ पादावकर्षसंधानैस्तोमराङ्कुशलासनैः। पादोदरविबन्धैश्च भूतावुभ्रमणैस्तथा॥ गतप्रत्यागताक्षेपैः पातनोत्थानसम्प्लुतैः। युयुधाते महात्मानौ कुरुसात्वतपुङ्गवौ॥