Confounded with arrowy showers was completely embraced. Beholding him made carless, Ashvatthaman, O monarch, caused him to ride on his own chariot and went on fightin with Arjuna. Then the king of the Madras pierced the son of Kunti with thirty arrows.
मोहितः शरजालेन कर्तव्यं नाभ्यपद्यता तं तथा विस्थं दृष्ट्वा रथमारोप्य तं तदा॥ अश्वत्थामां महाराज भूयोऽर्जुनमयोधयत्। मद्रराजश्च कौन्तेयमविध्यत् त्रिंशता शरैः॥