Inflamed with rage, he balanced it in his hands and then hurled it vehemently at the chariot of Karna. Adhiratha's son then with ten shafts, cut-off that glad-decked dart hurled by Bhima, as it was flying swiftly towards him like a blazing meteor; that lance then fell down, severed into fragments by those sharp arrows of Suta's son Karna, that warrior versed in all modes of warfare, then engaged in the fight for the sake of friends. Then the son of Kunti grasped a buckler adorned with gold.
तां व्यवासृजदाविध्य क्रुद्धः कर्णरथं प्रति। तामाधिरथिरायस्तः शक्तिं काञ्चनभूषणाम्॥ आपतन्ती महोल्काभां चिच्छेद दशभिः शरैः। सापतद् दशधा छिन्ना कर्णस्य निशितैः शरैः॥ अस्यतः सूतपुत्रस्य मित्रार्थे चित्रयोधिनः। स चर्मादत्त कौन्तेयो जातरूपपरिष्कृतम्॥