Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.72.39

tayor evaḿ praharatoḥ

sama-śikṣā-balaujasoḥ

nirviśeṣam abhūd yuddham

akṣīṇa-javayor nṛpa

SYNONYMS

tayoḥ — of the two; evam — thus; praharatoḥ — striking; sama — equal; śikṣā — whose training; bala — strength; ojasoḥ — and stamina; nirviśeṣam — indecisive; abhūt — was; yuddham — the fight; akṣīṇa — undiminished; javayoḥ — whose exertion; nṛpa — O King.

TRANSLATION

As they thus fought, this contest between opponents of equal training, strength and stamina reached no conclusion. And so they kept on fighting, O King, without any letup.

PURPORT

Some ācāryas include the following two verses in the text of this chapter, and Śrīla Prabhupāda has also translated them in Kṛṣṇa:

evaḿ tayor mahā-rāja

yudhyatoḥ sapta-viḿśatiḥ

dināni niragaḿs tatra

suhṛd-van niśi tiṣṭhatoḥ

ekadā mātuleyaḿ vai

prāha rājan vṛkodaraḥ

na śakto 'haḿ jarāsandhaḿ

nirjetuḿ yudhi mādhava

"Thus, O King, they continued to fight for twenty-seven days. At the end of each day's fighting, both lived at night as friends in Jarāsandha's palace. Then on the twenty-eighth day, O King, Vṛkodara [Bhīma] told his maternal cousin, 'Mādhava, I cannot defeat Jarāsandha in battle.' "

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