O monarch, the combatants, being highly oppressed the shafts, could not make out their friends from the antagonists and the assembled princes, who were all very desirous of victory, continued to battle, considering (the fact), that they should fight.
नैव स्वे न परे राजन् विज्ञायन्ते शरातुराः॥ योद्धव्यमिति युध्यन्ते रानानो जयगृद्धिनः।