Then he (Arjuna), finding an opening in his antagonist, shot the foremost of his arrows, that was powerful enough to take away the very life itself (of the person struck with it), at Duryodhana. This the son of Drona severed into seven fragments.
नवमं च समाधाय व्यसृजत् प्राणघातिनम्। दुर्योधनायेषुवरं त द्रौणिः सप्ताच्छिनन्त्॥