Showers of shafts, swift-flying as Garuda or the wind itself, fell from all points of the compass, cardinal and subsidiary from the welkin and out of earth.
दिग्भ्यः प्रदिग्भ्यः खाद् भूमेः सर्वतः शरवृष्ट्यः। उच्चावचा निपेतुर्वै गरुडानिलरंहसः॥