A fire, O foremost of the Bharatas, was engendered in the welkin. Desirous of slaying Bhima, Karna then, sped at the former numerous arrows, furnished with golden wings and cleansed by the forger himself. Bhima, however, with his own shafts, cut every one of Karna's arrows into three fragments.
आकाशे भरतश्रेष्ठ पावकः समजायत। तथा कर्णः शितान् बाणान् कर्मारपरिमार्जितान्॥ सुवर्णविकृतान् क्रुद्धः प्राहिणोद् वधकाङ्क्षया। तातन्तरिक्षे विशिखैस्त्रिधैकैकमशातयत्॥