Hearing these words of Vasudeva, the virtuous king Yudhishthira reflected for a moment and then proceeded towards the spot where the battle was raging hot and furious and where, Bhima, the slayer of his foes, taking up his station, was destroying your warriors like the (grim) Destroyer with gaping mouth.
वासुदेववचः श्रुत्वा धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः। मुहूर्तं चिन्तयित्वा तु ततो दारुणमाहवम्॥ प्रायाद् द्रुतममित्रनो यत्र भीमो व्यवस्थितः। विनिप्रंस्तावकान् योधान् व्यादितास्य इवान्तकः॥५३