Thereafter Hrishikesha of eyes resembling lotus petals, smiling with the greatest assurance as if he were in the midst of women, led the steeds in the arrowy hall created on the field of battle by Arjuna, before the very eyes of all your troops, O king.
अथ स्मयन् हृषीकेशः स्त्रीमध्य इव भारत। अर्जुनेन कृते संख्ये शरगर्भगृहे तथा॥ उपावर्तयदव्यग्रस्तानश्वान् पुष्करेक्षणः। मिषतां सर्वसैन्यानां त्वदीयानां विशाम्पते॥