Then in the very midst of the hostile troops, the son of Phalguna pierced Karna in one of his ears with an excellent barbed arrows, carefully tempered and whetted.
स कर्णं कर्णिना कर्णे पीतेन च शितेन च। फाल्गुनिर्द्विषतां मध्ये विव्याध परमेषुणा॥