Thereafter in that battle, the son of Bharadvaja resisted, by hundreds and by thousand the mighty army belonging to the sons of Pandu. Shikhandin also, O mighty sovereign encountering the son of Drona in the conflict, wounded him between the brows with three swift coursing long shafts.
भारद्वाजस्ततस्तूर्ण पाण्डवानां महाचमूम्। दारयामास समरे शतथोऽथ सहस्रशः॥ शिखण्डी तु महाराज द्रौणिमासाद्य संयुगे। आजधान भ्रुवोर्मध्ये नाराचैस्त्रिभिराशुगैः॥