Then Dhananjaya struck Karna with twelve keen and boar-eared arrows and a powerful Naracha like a virulent snake shot off his fulldrawn bow. Those arrows went though Karna's armour, as if drinking his blood and killing him and entered into the earth with their wings soaked with blood.
वराहकणैर्निशितैः समर्प्य। माकर्णपूर्णायतमुत्ससर्ज॥ स चित्रवर्मेषुवरो विदार्य प्राणानिरस्यन्निव साधुमुक्तः। कर्णस्य पीत्वा रुधिरं विवेश वसुन्धरां शोणितदिग्धवाजः॥