O Bharata, seeing that great archer start off for the field all the living beings believed Karna as already slain by the magnanimous Pandava.
तमायान्तं प्रहेष्वासं दृष्ट्वा भूतानि भारत। निहतं मेनिरे कर्णं पाण्डवेन महात्मना॥