Displaying his vigor, then the illustrious king of the Madras struck the heroic Yudhishthira of terrible might in the chest with an arrow effulgent like the fire or the sun.
ततस्तु मद्राधिपतिर्महात्मा युधिष्ठिरं भीमबलं प्रसह्या विव्याध वीरं हृदयेऽतिवेगं शरेण सूर्याग्निसमप्रभेण॥