As also ten shafts at Drona, with a view to encompass his slaughter. Drupada also, equally enraged, hurled at the car of Drona, a dreadful dart made wholly of iron and decked with gold and effulgent like the body of a excellent snake. Then cutting off with a well-sharpened bhalla those tomaras.
दश चिक्षेप च शरान् द्रोणस्य वधकाङ्क्षया। शक्तिं च दुपदो घोरामायसी स्वर्णभूषिताम्॥ चिक्षेप भुजगेन्द्राभां क्रुद्धो द्रोणरथं प्रति। ततो भल्लैः सुनिशितैश्छित्त्वा तांस्तोमरान् दश॥