Burning with wrath like an infuriate lion and unable to brook the assaults of the Rakshasa Karna took up that foremost of victory-giving and indomitable darts, desirous of achieving the destruction of Ghatotkacha.
स वै क्रुद्धः सिंह इवात्यमर्षी नामर्षयत् प्रतिघातं रणेऽसौ। शक्तिं श्रेष्ठां वैजयन्तीमसह्यां समाददे तस्य वधं चिकीर्षन्॥