Afflicted with those sharpened shafts resembling flame of fire and worked up with anger, Kripa, assailing soon the high-souled Partha of incomparable energy with ten thousand shafts, sent out a war cry in battle. Then the heroic Arjuna taking up his bow speedily bored through the four horses of his enemy with four dreadful straight and gold winged arrows shot from the Gandiva. Then pierced by sharpened arrows resembling flames of fire those horses all on a sudden sprang up and Kripa fell off from his place. Then seeing Gautama dislodged the son of Kunti.
तूर्णं दशसहस्रेण पार्थमप्रतिमौजसम्। अर्दयित्वा महात्मानं ननर्द समरे कृपः॥ ततः कनकपर्वाग्रैर्वीरः संनतपर्वभिः। त्वरन् गाण्डीवनिर्मुक्तैरर्जुनस्तस्य वाजिनः॥ चतुर्भिश्चतुरस्तीक्ष्णैरविध्यत् परमेषुभिः। हया निशितैर्बाणैर्व्वलद्भिरिव पन्नगैः। उत्पेतुः सहसा सर्वे कृपः स्थानादथाच्यवत्॥ च्युतं तु गौतमं स्थानात् समीक्ष्य कुरुनन्दनः।