Of touch heavy like that of a mace or a bludgeon these arrows are destroying my vital breaths like so many messengers of Death. Surely they are not Shikhandin's.
नाशयन्तीव मे प्राणान् यमदूता इवाहिताः॥ गदापरिघसंस्पर्शा नेमे बाणाः शिखण्डिनः।