Those kings could not even in their imagination string that bow of extraordinary stiffness. And those kings, in exerting with swelling lips to string that bow each according to his strength, education, skill and energy, were all tossed on the ground and lay motionless for some time. Their strength gone and their crowns and garlands loosened from their persons, they panted for breath. Their ambition for wining that maiden was soon cooled down. Tossed by that stiff bow, their garlands and bracelets and other ornaments, were disordered and they uttered exclamations of woe. Having their hope of obtaining Krishria gone that assemblage of kings looked sad and woeful.
तत् कार्मुकं संहननोपपन्न सज्यं न शेकुर्मनसापि कर्तुम्। ते विक्रमन्तः स्फुरता दृढेन विक्षिप्यमाणा धनुषा नरेन्द्राः॥ विचेष्टमाना धरणीतलस्था यथाबलं शैक्ष्यगुणक्रमाश्च। गतौजसः सस्तकिरीटहारा विनि:स्वसन्तः शमयाम्बभूवुः॥ हाहाकृतं तद् धनुषा दृढेन विस्रस्तहाराङ्गदचक्रबालम्। कृष्णानिमित्तं विनिवृत्तकाम राज्ञां तदा मण्डलमार्तमासीत्॥