Vaishampayana said : Then those five sons of Pritha, cach like Indra himself, growing angry and leaving the terrified foot-soldiers only who were begging for mercy, attacked furiously on all sides the charioteers darkening the very air with a thick shower of shafts they discharged.
वैशम्पायन उवाच स्त्यक्त्वा त्रस्तान् प्राञ्जलींस्तान् पदातीन्। रथानीकं शरवर्षान्धकारं चक्रुः क्रुद्धाः सर्वतः संनिगृह्य॥