Then with great lightness at a time when lightness was necessary, Dhananjaya in order to slay Karna, sped at him an arrows of the effulgence of the solar rays.
अथान्यद् धनुरादाय सूतपुत्रः प्रतापवान्। सायकैरष्टसाहस्रश्छादयामास पाण्डवम्॥