O monarch, through overwhelmed with this calamity, be still patient, and listen to the account of the battle as it happened, as I, O sire, go on recounting it.
तस्माद् राजन् स्थिरो भूत्वा प्राप्येदं व्यसनं महत्। शृणु युद्धं यथावृत्तं शंसती मे नराधिप।॥