The heroic Sarangadvaja endowed with the wealth of energy, the ruler of the Pandyas, mounted on chargers of the colour of the moon-beams and clad in coats of mail set with lapises, rushed at Drona stretching his bow of superior make. His dominions having been on invaded and his relatives having escaped, his sire had been slain, O monarch, in battle by Krishna; securing weapons then from Bhishma, Drona and Rama and Kripa, he became, in the use of weapons, equal to Rukmi, Karna, Arjuna and Achyuta. He then became intent on destroying the city of Dvaraka and subjugating the whole world. But his wise friends out of a desire to do good to him. prevented him from that course. Abandoning all thoughts of revenge, he is now ruling his own dominions.
केशवेन हते संख्ये पितर्यथ नराधिपे। भिन्ने कपाटे पाण्ड्यानां विद्रुतेषु च बन्धुषु॥ भीष्मादवाप्य चास्त्राणि दोणाद् रामात् कृपात् तथा। अस्त्रैः समत्वं सम्प्राप्य रुक्मिकर्णार्जुनाच्युतैः॥ इयेष द्वारकां हन्तुं कृत्स्नां जेतुं च मेदिनीम्। निवारितस्ततः प्राज्ञैः सुद्भिर्हितकाम्यया॥ वैरानुबन्धमुत्सृज्य स्वराज्यमनुशास्ति यः। स सागरध्वजः पाण्ड्यश्चन्द्ररश्मिनिभैर्हयैः॥ वैडूर्यजालसंछन्नैर्वीर्यद्रविणमाश्रितः। दिव्यं विस्फारयंश्चापं द्रोणमभ्यद्रवद् बली॥