And grasping a mace, Bhimasena rushed on foot against Jayadratha in that battle. Then Jayadratha simultaneously pierced Bhimasena who was thus furiously rushing at him with a mace in hand with five hundred sharp-pointed terrible shafts, each resembling the mace of the Destroyer himself. Without paying the least heed to those arrows, the highly active Vrikodara with heart burning in wrath,
गदां प्रगृह्याभिपपात संख्ये जयद्रथं भीमसेनः पदातिः। तमापतन्तं सहसा जवेन जयद्रथः सगदं भीमसेनम्॥ विव्याध घोरैर्यमदण्डकल्पैः शितैः शरैः पञ्चशतैः समन्तात्। अचिन्तयित्वा स शरांस्तरस्वी वृकोदरः क्रोधपरीतचेताः॥