The combatants of the Kuru and the Pandava troops nearing one another, began to dispatch one another to the regions of death, with arrows of diverse shapes.
अन्योन्यं ते समासाद्य कुरुपाण्डवसैनिकाः। अस्त्रैर्नानाविधैर्घोरै रणे निन्युर्यमक्षयम्॥