Verse 33

²⁷Bhagavan said: know this to be the weapon of Brahma displayed by Drona's son. He does not know how to draw it back, his life being threatened. ²⁸There is no other weapon at all that draws this one down. Being a knower of weapons, put out the swelling heat of the weapon by the heat of a weapon. ²⁹Hearing what the Bhagavan said, Phalguna, killer of enemy heroes, touched water, walked round him, and fixed the weapon of Brahma against the weapon of Brahma. ³⁰Striking one another, the two heats, wrapped about with arrows, covered the earth and sky and the space between, and grew like the sun and like fire. ³¹Seeing the great heat of those two weapons burning up the three worlds, all the people, burning, took it for the fire at the ending of an age.

³²Marking the affliction of the people and that overturning of the world, and knowing what Vasudeva thought, Arjuna drew both weapons back. ³³Then, reaching Gautami's son swiftly, he bound that harsh man as a beast is bound with a cord, his own eyes copper-red with fury.