In that engagement, hurled a formidable dart, made wholly of iron (at the Kaurava king).-The king of the Kurus, (however), cut into three fragments that dart, before it could reach him, that dart blazing like a flame of fire, looking (terrible) like the sister of Death herself and dividing the firmament with its fire like splendour into two parts like the trees of a woman parting the hair of her head.
शक्तिं चिक्षेप समरे सर्वपारशवीं शुभाम्। मृत्योरिव स्वसारं हि दीप्तां वह्निशिखामिव॥ सीमन्तमिव कुर्वन्ती नभसोऽग्निसमप्रभाम्। आप्राप्तामेव तां शक्तिं त्रिधा चिच्छेद कौरवः॥