Vaishampayana said — Thus went on that battle, O chief of the Bharatas, for three days between Arjuna and that prince like the encounter between him of a hundred sacrifices and Vritra.
एवं त्रिरात्रमभवत् तद् युद्धं भरतर्षभ। अर्जुनस्य नरेन्द्रेण वृत्रेणेव शतक्रतोः॥