Bursting open his bow, Arjuna pierced him with twenty-one arrows resembling tongues of blazing fire or infuriate snakes of virulent poison.
तस्यार्जुनो धनुश्छित्त्वा विव्याधैनं त्रिसप्तभिः। शरैरग्निशिखाकारैः क्रुद्धाशीविषसंनिभैः॥