Struck, O foremost of men, the elephant of the Dasharna king; these lances penetrating the fine Armour and caparisons of gold covering the elephant's body, entered into it like snakes entering into their holes on ant-hills. That elephant, O foremost of the Bharatas, thus deeply pierced and extremely pained,
प्राहिणोत् तस्य नागस्य प्रमुखे नृपसत्तम। वर्म मुख्यं तनुत्राणं शातकुम्भपरिष्कृतम्॥ विदार्य प्राविशन् क्षिप्रं वल्मीकमिव पन्नगाः। स गाढविद्धो व्यथितो नागो भरतसत्तम॥