After having made Karna their generalissimo with the due performance of the most auspicious rites (by tying a thread round his wrist) and having adored the foremost of the regenerate persons by offerings of vessels of curds, clarified butter and vessels, filled with corn and other auspicious articles, as well as by presents of gold-coins, kine and gems, valuable cloths and immense wealth and also having been praised by the charioteers and panegyrists, born in the country of Magadha, (the Magadha-panegyrists are the mixed tribes born of a Kshatriya mother and a Brahmana father), with hymns about victory.
कर्णं सेनापतिं कृत्वा कृतकौतुकमङ्गलाः। पूजायित्वा द्विजश्रेष्ठान् दधिपात्रघृताक्षतैः॥ गोभिरश्चैश्च निष्कैश्च वासोभिश्च महाधनैः। वन्धमाना जयाशीर्भिः सूतमागधवन्दिभिः॥