Karna, excited to the highest pitch of fury, poured on Bhima his arrowy showers; then 0 Bharata, your sons and their soldiers all beheld the mighty energy, prowess and perseverance of Bhima inasmuch as the latter, unmindful of that shower of arrows resembling the furious ocean, dashed with wrath against Karna. O monarch, Bhima then wielded a bow that was formidable and the back of which was adorned with gold.
कर्णः प्राच्छादयत् क्रुद्धो भीमं सायकवृष्टिभिः। तत्र भारत भीमस्य बलं वीर्ये पराक्रमम्॥ व्यवसायं च पुत्रास्ते ददृशुः सहसैनिकाः। तां समुद्रमिवोद्धतां शरवृष्टिं समुत्थिताम्॥ अचिन्तयित्वा भीमस्तु क्रुद्धः कर्णमुपाद्रवत्। रुक्मपृष्ठं महचापं भीमस्यासीद् विशाम्पते॥