Finding that heroic son of Prajāpati, afflicted with natural decrepitude, aged, and resembling smouldering fire, wounded with hundreds of shafts, Pulastya's son said, “O noble one, has not your life been destroyed with those sharp shafts?"
स्वभावजरया युक्तं वृद्धं शरशतैश्चितम्। प्रजापतिसुतं वीरं शाम्यन्तमिव पावकम्॥ दृष्ट्वा समभिसंक्रम्य पौलस्त्यो वाक्यमब्रवीत्। कश्चिदार्यशरैस्तीक्ष्णैर्न प्राणा ध्वंसितास्तव ॥