He then covered Abhimanyu with sixty shafts all furnished with golden wings and also thus addressed him-“You shall not escape me alive in battle, so long as I am alive'.
सोऽभिमन्युं शरैः षष्ट्या रुक्मपुङ्खरवाकिरत्। अब्रवीच्च न मे जीवञ्जीवतो युधि मोक्ष्यसे॥