With a view to save his son and kill the ruthless Bhima Karna struck the former with seventy-three dreadful arrows.
पुनः कर्णस्त्रिसप्तत्या भीमसेनपथेषुभिः। पुत्रं परीप्सन् विव्याध क्रूरं क्रूरैर्जिघांसया॥