Supported by many thousand of cars, and excited with rage and fury, your son Nandaka pierced Bhimasena of great might with keenpointed shafts whetted on stone and winged with the feathers of the Kanka bird. Then also, O monarch, Duryodhana excited with rage, in that fierce fight, struck Bhimasena on the breast with nine whetted shafts. Thereafter the mighty-armed Bhimasena endued with superior strength mounted on his own most excellent chariot and thus addressed his charioteer Vishoka. These heroic and mighty carwarriors, these sons of Dhritarashtra endued with prowess.
रथैरनेकसाहौः क्रोधामर्षसमन्वितः नन्दकस्तव पुत्रस्तु भीमसेनं महाबलम्॥ विव्याध विशिखैः षड्भिः कङ्कपत्रैः शिलाशितैः। दुर्योधनश्च समरे भीमसेनं महारथम्॥ आजघानोरसि क्रुद्धो मार्गणैर्नवभिः शितैः। ततो भीमो महाबाहुः स्वरथं सुमहाबलः॥ आरुरोह रथश्रेष्ठं विशोकं चेदमब्रवीत्। एते महारथाः शूरा धार्तराष्ट्राः समागताः॥