Then like the clouds covering the sun, the Drona-cloud with its down-pour of arrows, covered the Arjuna-sun whose rays in the form of thick shower of arrows, were burning down the foremost ones among the Kurus, in battle.
तं पाण्डवादित्यशरांशुजालं कुरुप्रवीरान् युधि निष्टपन्तम्। स द्रोणमेघः शरवृष्टिवेगैः प्राच्छादयन्मेघ इवार्करश्मीन्॥