Discharged their arrows by hundreds, towards Phalguna, arrows, that resembled the rays of the sun. Cutting off all those shafts thus sped towards him, into two, three or eight fragments, the diadem-decked Arjuna, indomitable in battle, pierced them all (with his arrows). Then Ashvatthaman owning the device of a lion's tail in his banner, displaying his might.
मुमुचः सूर्यरश्म्याभाञ्छतशः फाल्गुनं प्रति। ततस्तानस्यमानांश्च किरीटी युद्धदुर्मदः॥ द्विधा त्रिधाष्टधैकैकं छित्त्वा विव्याध तान् रथान्। ॥ सिंहलाडुलकेतुस्तु दर्शयन् वीर्यमात्मनः॥