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TRANSLATION
29.
Fearlessly they plunged into the deep ocean of Yadu's army, thronged or crowded with lofty waves of the cavalry and the dreadful crocodiles in the form of Balarāma and Mādhava (: Krsna).
30.
Pradyumna and Kārtikeya, with a peacock as his vehicle, bent their fierce bows and fought with each other covering the sky with showers of arrows.
31.
The enemy's arrows with various tips, which were instantaneously thrown off or repelled by the blast of the big, bright, wings of the peacock (the mount or vehicle of Kārtikeya). They could simply not reach their target - the body of Viśākla (i.e.Kārtikeya).
32.
Then that son of Rukmini (i.e., Pradyumna) pierced Guha (an epithet of Kārtikeya) with sharp arrows bearing sparks of fire and which on an earlier occasion had pierced the vitals of the demon Sambara.
33.
The demon Bāna, who could confound his enemy with missiles shot from his five hundred bows, engaged himself in a combat with Yuyudhāna (i.e., Sātyaki).
34.
In the course of the combat the various types of arrows of Sātyaki in no time rendered the volley of Bāna's arrows pale in lustre as the rays of the sun do the clusters of stars.
35.
Then that supreme god (i.e., Śiva) himself rushing at Janārdana (i.e. Krsna) shot arrows fixed on his Pināka bow - the arrows that had made Tripura's wives widows.
36.
The enemy of the demon Madhu (i.e., Krsna) too
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