Thereafter displaying many many excellent weapons, Karna, that most honoured of all bowmen, desirous of victory pierced Subhadra's son with hundreds of shafts. Then that puissant pupil of Rama, that foremost of all men learned in the use of weapons, began to afflict Abhimanyu who was incapable of being vanquished by the foe.
ततः कर्णो जयप्रेप्सुर्मानी सवधनुष्मताम्॥ सौभद्रं शतशोऽविध्यदुत्तमास्त्राणि दर्शयन्। सोऽस्त्रैरस्त्रविदां श्रेष्ठो रामशिष्यः प्रतापवान्॥ समरे शत्रुदुर्धर्षमभिमन्युमपीडयत्।