Those arrows decked with the feathers of the Kanka bird, coming upon Vikarna and passing through his body stuck on the ground like so many hissing snakes.
ते विकर्णं समासाद्य कङ्कबर्हिणवाससः। भित्तवा देहं गता भूमि ज्वलन्त इव पन्नगाः॥