Getting at Karna's thigh, that blooddrinking worm began to pierce it. Lest his preceptor might get up, Karna could neither throw away nor kill that animal.
स तस्योरुमथासाद्य बिभेद रुधिराशनः। न चैनमशकत् क्षेप्तुं हन्तुं वापि गुरोर्भयात्॥