Then Shalya shot a dreadful arrow at Yudhishthira that resembled a a snake of dreadful venom. Piercing through the highsouled son of Kunti, that arrow quickly dropped down the Earth.
तस्य शल्यः शरं घोरं मुमोचासीविषोपमम्॥ स निर्भिद्य महात्मानं वेगेनाभ्यपतच गाम्।