That highly resplendent shaft, having pierced heroic Prativindhya in the field of battle and also having penetrated through his right arm, fell down upon the ground; and as it fell, it illuminated that whole region (the battlefield) by its splendour, even as the lightning, falling upon the carth, illumines the entire place, where it falls.
समासाद्य रणे शूरं प्रतिविन्ध्यं महाप्रभा। निर्भिद्य दक्षिणं बाहु निपपात महीतले। पतिताभासयचैव त देशमशनिर्यथ॥