Dhritarashtra said Having attained the generalship of the army and been addressed by the king himself in sweet and brotherly terms and thereupon having ordered the troops to be arranged in battle-array towards the rise of the Sun, relate to me, O Sanjaya, what did the highly intellectual son of Vikartana, Karna, do at that time.
धृतराष्ट्र उवाच सैनापत्यं तु सम्प्राप्य कर्णो वैकर्तनस्तदा। तथोक्तश्च स्वयं राज्ञा स्निग्धं भ्रातृसमं वचः॥ योगमाज्ञाप्य सेनानामादित्येऽभ्युदिते तदा। अकरोत् किं महाप्राज्ञास्तन्ममाचक्ष्व संजय॥