Seeing the shaft severed, like a serpent having its person cut off, Atikāya waxing exceedingly enraged, took up five arrow; and the nightranger discharged them at Lakşmaņa. Thereat Bharata's younger brother cut off the approaching arrows with whetted shafts.
तं निकृत्तं शरं दृष्ट्वा कृत्तभोगमिवोरगम्। अतिकायो भृशं क्रुद्धः पञ्च बाणान्समादधे॥ ताशरान्संप्रचिक्षेप लक्ष्मणाय निशाचरः। तानप्राप्ताशितैर्बाणैश्चिच्छेद भरतानुजः॥