In the meantime hearing that Shalya had been killed and that Yudhishthira had been assailed by the mighty car-warriors of the Madrakas devoted to the well-being of the Madraka king, the great car-warrior Partha came there, stretching his bow Gandiva and filling the Earth with the rattle of his car.
श्रुत्वा च निहतं शल्यं धर्मपुत्रं च पीडितम्॥ मद्रराजप्रिये युक्तैर्मद्रकाणां महारथैः। आजगाम ततः पार्थो गाण्डीवं विक्षिपन् धनुः॥ पूरयन् रथघोषेण दिश: सर्वा महारथः।