Those shafts, penetrating through the letters armour's drank his life-blood. Thereupon, inflamed with rage, Dushasana pierced Pritha's Sual with three shafts. Then again, O foremost of the Bharata, he pierced Arjuna with three shafts of exceeding sharpness, on the forehead. Then with those arrows, struck on the forehead, Pandu's son appeared beautiful like.
ते तस्य कवचं भित्त्वा पपुः शोणितमाहवे॥ दुःशासनस्त्रिभिः क्रुद्धः पार्थं विव्याध पत्रिभिः। ललाटे भरतश्रेष्ठ शरैः संनतपर्वभिः॥ ललाटस्यैस्तु तैर्बाणैः शुशुभे पाण्डवो रणे।