विक्रान्तौ बलसंपन्नावुभौ विक्रमशालिनौ। उभौ परमदुर्जेयावतुल्यबलतेजसौ॥ युयुधाते तदा वीरौ ग्रहाविव नभोगतौ। बलवृत्राविव हि तौ युधि वै दुष्प्रधर्षणौ॥ युयुधाते महात्मानौ तदा केसरिणाविव। बहूनवसृजन्तौ हि मार्गणौघानवस्थितौ।। नरराक्षसमुख्यौ तौ प्रहृष्टावभ्ययुध्यताम्॥
vikrāntau balasaṃpannāvubhau vikramaśālinau| ubhau paramadurjeyāvatulyabalatejasau|| yuyudhāte tadā vīrau grahāviva nabhogatau| balavṛtrāviva hi tau yudhi vai duṣpradharṣaṇau|| yuyudhāte mahātmānau tadā kesariṇāviva| bahūnavasṛjantau hi mārgaṇaughānavasthitau|| nararākṣasamukhyau tau prahṛṣṭāvabhyayudhyatām||
English Meaning
Both powerful, and both endowed with strength and possessed of prowess, and both exceedingly invincible; and both having unparalleled might and energy, those heroes faught like two planets in the welkin; or like Bala and Vộtra, irresistible in conflict; and those high-souled ones faught like two lions. And showering countless shafts and displaying many manoeuvres, that foremost of men and that Rāks asas, faught on cheerfully,
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)