Thus sundered with Anjalika arrow Karna's trunk dropped down on earth. The head also of the commander of the Kuru army, effulgent like the risen, sun and the meridian sun of the autumn, dropped down on earth like the crimson sun falling down from the setting hill.
मथास्य कायो निपपात पश्चात्। तदुद्यतादित्यसमानतेजसं शरन्नभोमध्यगभास्करोपमम्॥ वराङ्गमुक्मपतञ्चमूमुखे दिवाकरोऽस्तादिवरक्तमण्डलः।