Sanjaya said Thereupon your father, waxing worth, began to pierce the sons of Pritha and their troops, with excellent shafts of exceeding sharpness. Piercing Bhima with twelve, Satyaki with nine shafts, Nakula with three, Sahadeva with seven, he pierced.
संजय उवाच ततः पिता तव क्रुद्धो निशितैः सायकोत्तमैः। आजघान रणे पार्थान् सहसेनान् समन्ततः॥ भीमं द्वादशभिर्विद्ध्वा सात्यकिं नवभिः शरैः। नकुलं च त्रिभिर्विद्ध्वा सहदेवं च सप्तभिः॥