For seeing the brave Karna, wounded with shafts and bathed in blood lying prostrate on earth like the sun dropped from the sky the warriors came there and stood encircling the fallen hero.
कर्णं तु शूरं पतितं पृथिव्यां शराचितं शोणितदिग्धगात्रम्। यद्दच्छया सूर्यमिवावनिस्थं दिदृक्षवः सम्परिवार्य तस्थुः॥