O monarch, invoking the help of most powerful weapons those two redoubtable bowmen shot fearful arrows against each other. The foremost of men however shot hosts of elephants, horses and men and also struck one another.
ततो महास्त्राणि महाधनुर्धरौ विमुञ्चमानाविषुभिर्भयानकैः॥ नराश्वनागानमितान् निजघ्नतुः परस्परं चापि महारथी नृप।