Beholding Shalya rushing towards him with horse and foot, king Yudhishthira, worked up with wrath, checked him with sharp arrows, even as an infuriate elephant is checked with iron-hooks.
तमापतन्तं पत्त्यश्वैः क्रुद्धो राजा युधिष्ठिरः॥ अवारयच्छरैस्तीक्ष्णैर्महाद्विपमिवाङ्कुशैः।