While his preceptor was thus sleeping (with head] on his lap, a dreadful worm, whose bite was very painful and which lived on phlegm and fat and flesh and blood, appeared before Karna.
अथ कृमिः श्लेष्ममेदोमांसशोणितभोजनः। दारुणो दारुणस्पर्शः कर्णस्याभ्याशमागतः॥