With arrows stricking (to their bodies) like prickly thorms, they, O mighty monarch, looked, in (that) engagement, like a couple of porcupines with erect quills.
तावुभौ समरे शूरौ शरकण्टकिनौ तदा। व्यराजेतां महाराज श्वाविधौ शललैरिव॥