Thus spoken to by Pritha's son, O foremost of the Bharatas, Shikhandin speedily covered the grandsire with arrows of various description;
एवमुक्तस्तु पार्थेन शिखण्डी भरतर्षभ। शरैर्नानाविधैस्तूर्णं पितामहमवाकिरत्॥