After a short while, the heroic warriors, after having surrounded Arjuna, even like the celestials encompassing Purandara, addressed him, saying 'O hero, that enemy, of whom we were greatly afraid like the creatures being afraid of death itself, had now been slain by you.'
अथार्जुनं स्वे परिवार्य सैनिकाः पुरन्दरं देवगणा इवाब्रुवन्। अभैष्म यस्मान्मरणादिव प्रजाः स वीर दिष्ट्या निहतस्त्वयारिपुः॥