He appeared like to a terrible serpent of five mouths having the top of the arrow for his tongue, the bow for his expanded hood and his own prowess for the poison.
बाणशल्यस्फुरज्जिह्वः सायकासनभोगवान्। स्वतेजोविषसम्भूतः पञ्चास्य इव पन्नगः॥