Others approved of it. Yudhishthira accepted it with much reluctance. Then the mighty-armed Bhiina, O monarch, slew with his mace, a terrible prodigious and foecrushing elephant called Ashvatthaman belonging to Indravarman the ruler of the Malavas.
अन्ये त्वरोचयन् सर्वे कृच्छ्रेण तु युधिष्ठिरः। ततो भीमो महाबाहुरनीके स्वे महागजम्॥ जघान गदया राजन्नश्वत्थामानमित्युत। परप्रमथनं घोरं मालवस्येन्द्रवर्मणः॥