Your father Devavrata, then, without the slightest fcar, with eight sharp and winged arrows, cut down into nine parts that fearful dart which was decked with pure gold and which appeared to be covered with flames of fire.
असम्भ्रान्तस्तदा राजन् पिता देवव्रतस्तव।॥ अष्टभिर्नवभिर्भीष्मः शक्तिं चिच्छेद पत्रिभिः। उत्कृष्टहेमविकृतां निकृतां निशितैः शरैः॥