O Dhananjaya, I am burning with hatred against him. Conscious of my days being numbered I avoided Karna, like the bird Vaddrinasa. I approached him as if bent on my own destruction. Awake or asleep I spent my days only in thinking how I would accomplish Karna's death.
तस्य द्वेषेण संयुक्तः परिदह्ये धनंजय। आत्मनो मरणे यातो वाध्रीणस इव द्विपः॥ तस्यायमगमत् कालश्चिन्तयानस्य मे चिरम्। कथं कर्णो मया शक्तो युद्धे क्षपयितुं भवेत्॥