Began to wound with dreadful shafts the protectors of the Sindhu ruler. The son of Pandu then covered with his arrowy showers Karna, Drona's son, Kripa, Shalya, Vrishasena and Duryodhana. Arjuna was quick in the use of weapons that none was able to notice when he took out his arrows, fixed them on the bowstring and stretched the bow and discharged them. Thus when he was engaged in wounding the foe, his bow was seen incessantly drawn to a circle. Thousands of shafts were seen to issue out from his bow and to scatter in all directions. Then severing off Karna's and Vrishasena's bow.
न्यवधीत् सायकै?रैः सिन्धुराजस्य रक्षिणः॥ द्रौणिं कृपं कर्णशल्यौ वृषसेनं सुयोधनम्। छादयामास तीव्रण शरजालेन पाण्डवः॥ न गृह्णन् न क्षिपन् राजन् मुञ्चन्नापि च संदधत्। अदृश्यतार्जुनः संख्ये शीघ्रास्रत्वात् कथंचन॥ धनुर्मण्डलमेवास्य दृश्यते स्मास्यतः सदा। सायकाश्च व्यदृश्यन्त निश्चरन्तः समन्ततः॥ कर्णस्य तु धनुश्छित्त्वा वृषसेनस्य चैव ह।