Then like the thunder-bolt rending a mountain open, that dart flying towards the elephant penetrated into its body to the very wings, like a snake entering into its hole in an ant-hill.
स समासाद्य तं नागं बाणो वज्र इवाचलम्। अभ्यगात् सह पुढेन वल्मीकमिव पन्नगः॥