O best of the Bharata race, he wounded Shalya with twenty-five arrows and Kripa with nine arrows and Ashvathama with eight.
स शल्यं पञ्चविंशत्या कृपं च नवभिः शरैः। अश्वत्थामानमष्टाभिर्विव्याध पुरुषर्षभः॥