Beholding the animal rushing forcibly at him, the heroic Dhrishtadyumna, taking up a mace, quickly leaped down on the Earth from his car, his limbs benumbed with fear.
दृष्ट्वाऽऽपतन्तं सहसा तु नागं धृष्टद्युम्नः स्वरथाच्छ्रीघ्रमेव। गदां प्रगृह्योग्रजवेन वीरो भूमिं प्रपन्नो भयविह्वलाङ्गः॥