O foremost of the Bharatas, appeared effulgent like a blazing fire. Then seeing Arjuna in that condition, all the fierce bowmen of your army, those foremost of men, possessed of the wealth of energy, could not brook him. Thereupon Duryodhana, Karna, Vrihasena, the ruler of the Madras.
प्रबभौ भरतश्रेष्ठ ज्वलन्निव हुताशनः। तं तथावस्थितं दृष्ट्वा त्वदीया वीर्यसम्पदा॥ नामृष्यन्त महेष्वासाः पाण्डवं पुरुषर्षभाः। दुर्योधनश्च कर्णश्च वृषसेनोऽथ मद्रराट्॥