These shafts, set with the feathers of Kanka's (peacocks') and sharpened on stone, were discharged with such a force that cutting through the gold bedecked armour of the king, they ran through his body and entered into the earth.
ते वर्म हेमविकृतं भित्वा राज्ञः शिलाशिताः॥ विविशुर्वसुधां वेगात् कङ्कबर्हिणवाससः।