Arjuna having been highly oppressed with those weapons and having dispelled the darkness (caused with the arrowy showers of Ashvaithaman), suddenly darkened all with the torrents of arrows and again and again pierced him (Ashvatthaman) and all those, belonging to your army, with arrows furnished with the excellent wings.
नभ्यर्दितस्तैरभिसृत्य शस्त्रैः। बाणान्धकारं सहसैव कृत्त्वा विव्याध सर्वानिषुभिः सुपुङ्खः ॥