Those well-directed and mighty shafts, winged with gold, after piercing the armour of that noblest of human beings, entered the earth and having bathed (in the water of Bhogavati) again return towards Karna.
ते वर्म भित्वा पुरुषोत्तमस्य सुवर्णचित्रा न्यपतन् सुमुक्ताः। वेगेन गामाविविशुः सुवेगाः स्नात्वा च कर्णाभिमुखाः प्रतीयुः॥