रुरोध मथुरामेत्य तिसृभिर्म्लेच्छकोटिभि: । नृलोके चाप्रतिद्वन्द्वो वृष्णीन्श्रुत्वात्मसम्मितान् ॥ ४४ ॥
rurodha mathurām etya tisṛbhir mleccha-koṭibhiḥ nṛ-loke cāpratidvandvo vṛṣṇīn śrutvātma-sammitān
- rurodha
- he besieged
- mathurām
- Mathurā
- etya
- arriving there
- tisṛbhiḥ
- times three
- mleccha
- with barbarians
- koṭibhiḥ
- ten million
- nṛ-loke
- among mankind
- ca
- and
- apratidvandvaḥ
- having no suitable rival
- vṛṣṇīn
- the Vṛṣṇis
- śrutvā
- hearing
- ātma
- to himself
- sammitān
- comparable
Arriving at Mathurā, this Yavana laid siege to the city with thirty million barbarian soldiers. He had never found a human rival worth fighting, but he had heard that the Vṛṣṇis were his equals.