Shikhandin also, O monarch, pierced the grandsire in battle with sharp arrows, of which the touch resembled that of the bolt of heaven and which were mortal like the virulent venom of snakes.
शिखण्डी तु रणे राजन् विव्याधैव पितामहम्। शरैरशनिसंस्पर्शस्तथा सर्पविषोपमैः॥