Vrikodara then, O foremost of the Bharatas, was covered with those shafts shot from Karna's bow, as if with the scattering rays of the blazing sun.
किरणैरिव सूर्यस्य महीथ्रो भरतर्षभ। कर्णचापच्युतैर्बाणैः प्राच्छाद्यत वृकोदरः॥