Neither, O monarch, O afflicter of your enemies, were we able to see the firmament, the sun or the cardinal and subsidiary quarters, in consequence of their being shrouded on all sides by a thick discharge of arrows.
नैव खं न दिशो राजन् न सूर्यं शत्रुतापन। विदिशो वाऽपि पश्यामः शरैर्मुक्तैः समन्ततः॥