O Sanjaya, How could the heroic and great car-warriors oppose the Pandavas, who were pouring forth showers of arrows like the clouds pouring forth drops of water. Do you relate to me, how then could that celestial snakemouthed arrow, that best one of its kind, become of no avail?
पाण्डवाश्च स्वयं शूराः प्रत्युदीयुर्महारथाः। सृजन्तः शरवर्षाणि वारिधारा इवाम्बुदाः॥ स च सर्पमुखो दिव्यो महेषुप्रवरस्तदा। के कर्णं न जहुः शूराः व्यर्थः कथं समभवत् तन्ममाचक्ष्व संजय॥