Though struck with keen shafts and thought they looked like porcupines on account of those arrows sticking to their body still your soldiers, O foremost of Bharatas did not fly from Partha in that battle.
भूयश्चैव महाराज शरवर्षैरवाकिरत्। शरकण्टकितास्ते तु तावका भरतर्षभ॥ न जहुः पार्थमासाद्य ताड्यमानाः शितैः शरैः।