Began to shower thousands of arrows on Kunti's son Arjuna. That foremost of all, versed in excellent weapons, baffling all the weapons hurled by his opponents, poured on them, O foremost of king's a veritable shower of arrows. Of controlled senses and endued with great lightness of hand, he repulsed the weapons shot at him by those of his own.
अभ्यवर्षञ्छरव्रातैः कुन्तीपुत्रं धनंजयम्। तेषामस्राणि सर्वेषामुत्तमास्त्रविदां वरः॥ कदर्थीकृत्य राजेन्द्र शरवर्षैरवाकिरत्। अस्त्रैरस्त्राणि संवार्य लघुहस्तो जितेन्द्रियः॥