Cut-off with Arjuna's arrows and shorn of life the tall and shining body of Karna, with blood gushing out of every wound, looked like the summit of a red chalk mount clapped by a thunder-bolt with red streams running down after a shower. Then a light came out of Karna's body, passed though the sky and entered into the sun.
शरैर्विभिन्नं व्यसु तत् सुवर्चसः पपात कर्णस्य शरीरमुच्छ्रितम्॥ स्त्रवव्रणं गैरिकतोयविस्त्रवं गिरेर्यथा वज्रहतं महाशिरः। देहाच कर्णस्य निपातितस्य तेजः सूर्य खं वितत्याविवेश॥