Those arrows, after having pierced through his armour, drank his blood in the battle; even as the snakes of virulent poison, after having penetrated the earth, drink the water.
ते तस्य कवच भित्वा पपुः शोणितमाहवे। आशीविषा यथा नागाभित्त्वा गां सलिलं पपुः॥