The most dreadful and distressing calamity had fallen upon all the warriors while they were fighting with the keen arrows and cut-off with the shafts of Karna.
महान् व्यतिकरो रौद्रो योधामान्वपद्यत। कर्णसायकनुन्नानां युध्यतां च शितैः शरैः॥