"Your friend, that best of the Nagas, Takshaka, has not been slain. Before the fire broke out in the Khandava, he had gone to Kurukshetra.
शतक्रतुं समाभाष्य महागम्भीरनिःस्वना। न ते सखा संनिहितस्तक्षको भुजगोत्तमः॥