The most excellent of the Bharata race, after having severed every one of the shafts of Ashvatthaman into three pieces, destroyed the power of those arrows even as the sun does away with the mist.
अश्वत्थाम्नः शरानस्तान् छित्त्वैकैकं त्रिधा त्रिधा। व्यधमद् भरतश्रेष्ठो नीहारमिव मारुतः॥