Then Ashvathama pierced with numerous shafts those two mighty warriors who having neared the son of the preceptor, had been wounding him with arrows.
गुरुपुत्रं समासाद्य प्रहरन्तौ महाबलौ॥ अश्वत्थामा ततस्तौ तु विव्याध बहुभिः शरैः।