Seeing him with the mace and resembling a mountain crest or the trident wielding Rudra himself casting angry looks on living beings they marked that Bharata chief to shed a lustre around like the scorching sun himself in the sky. Indeed, all creatures then regarded that mighty-armed chastiser of foes, as he stood with his mace on his shoulders after rising from the waters, to look like the Death himself armed with his rod.
गदां परामृशद् धीमान् धार्तराष्ट्रो महाबलः। गदाहस्तं तु तं दृष्ट्वा सशृङ्गमिव पर्वतम्॥ प्रजानामिव संक्रुद्धं शूलपाणिमिव स्थितम्। सगदो भारतो भाति प्रतपन् भास्करो यथा॥ तमुत्तीर्णं महाबाहुं गदाहस्तमरिंदमम्। मेनिरे सर्वभूतानि दण्डपाणिमिवान्तकम्॥