Both powerful, and both endowed with strength and possessed of prowess, and both exceedingly invincible; and both having unparalleled might and energy, those heroes faught like two planets in the welkin; or like Bala and Vộtra, irresistible in conflict; and those high-souled ones faught like two lions. And showering countless shafts and displaying many manoeuvres, that foremost of men and that Rāks asas, faught on cheerfully,
विक्रान्तौ बलसंपन्नावुभौ विक्रमशालिनौ। उभौ परमदुर्जेयावतुल्यबलतेजसौ॥ युयुधाते तदा वीरौ ग्रहाविव नभोगतौ। बलवृत्राविव हि तौ युधि वै दुष्प्रधर्षणौ॥ युयुधाते महात्मानौ तदा केसरिणाविव। बहूनवसृजन्तौ हि मार्गणौघानवस्थितौ।। नरराक्षसमुख्यौ तौ प्रहृष्टावभ्ययुध्यताम्॥