In return, each with twenty shafts displaying great lightness of hands. O Bharata Abhimanyu in that battle pierced Satyavrata and Purumitra each with ten shafts. The sons of Madri, the delighters of their mother, in that battle covered their maternal uncle with a shower of sharp shafts; and that seemed indeed marvelous. Thereupon, O mighty monarch, Shalya covered with innumerable arrows those nephews of his, those two foremost of car warriors, who were desirous of counteracting the stratagems of their uncle (Shalya himself). Yough thus covered over with arrows, the twin sons of Madri flinched not.
एकैकं पञ्चविंशत्या दर्शयन् पाणिलाघवम्। सत्यव्रतं च समरे पुरुमित्रं च भारत॥ अभिमन्युरविध्यत् तु दशभिर्दशभिः शरैः। माद्रीपुत्रौ तु समरे मातुलं मातृनन्दनौ॥ अविध्येतां शरैस्तीक्ष्णैस्तदद्भुतमिवाभवत्। ततः शल्यो महाराज स्वस्रीयौ रथिनां वरौ॥ शरैर्बहुभिरानछेत् कृतप्रतिकृतैषिणौ। छाद्यमानौ ततस्तौ तु माद्रीपुत्रौ न चेलतुः॥