Verse 31

²⁴He drew his bow hard and struck Krsna with three arrows, and said: Stand here a moment, you soiler of the Yadu house. ²⁵Where are you going, having stolen my sister as a crow steals the offering? Today I will take away your pride, you dull thing, you trickster, you crooked fighter. ²⁶Let go of the girl before you lie killed by my arrows. Smiling, Krsna cut his bow and pierced Rukmi with six shafts; ²⁷with eight he struck the four horses, with two the driver, with three the standard. And Rukmi took up another bow and pierced Krsna with five. ²⁸Struck by those floods of arrows, the Unfallen cut that bow too; and when he took up yet another, the one who does not waste away cut that as well.

²⁹Iron bar, spiked club, spear, shield and sword, javelin and lance: whatever weapon he took up, Hari cut it all to pieces. ³⁰Then he leapt down from his chariot, sword in hand, and in his anger rushed at Krsna to kill him, as a moth rushes at fire. ³¹As he came on, Krsna cut his sword and his shield to seed-sized pieces with arrows, and took up his own sharp sword, raised to kill Rukmi.