Dhananjaya then with ten well-aimed and flat edged shafts, cut each of them into three pieces and thus those five great snakes (friends of the Asvasena the son of Taksha) fell to the earth.
स्त्रिधा त्रिधैकैकमथोचकर्त। धनंजयास्त्रैर्यपतन् पृथिव्यां महाहयस्तक्षकपुत्रपक्षाः॥