All the rulers of earth were filled with admiration as those two warriors faced each other with their car wheels rattling their bows twanging and their arrows flying, with whizz, Partha with his ape banner flying and Karna with his banner marked with an elephant and roaring like a lion.
रथज्यातलनिर्हादैर्वाणसिंहरवैस्तथा। तौ रथावभिधावन्तौ समालोक्य महीक्षिताम्॥ ध्वजौ च दृष्ट्वा संसक्तो विस्मयः समपद्यतः। हस्तिकक्षं च कर्णस्य वानरं च किरीटिनः॥