The mighty car-warrior Shalya, in that battle, filled with rage, shrouded Yudhishthira with straight shafts.

With those straight shafts numbering seventy, he pierced Karna.

Encountering him, Shikhandi, protected by thee, slew that tiger among men with his straight shafts.

Making stone tools took time and patience, and so did scraping straight shafts and tying nets.

Then those two brothers, O monarch, with their straight shafts, cut off Nakula's car into fragments.

Karna began to strike him with many straight shafts, but took care not to afflict him greatly.

The heroic Gautama, excited with rage in that battle, pierced the mighty sons of Draupadi with many straight shafts.

There, those huge elephants, deeply pierced with the straight shafts of Bhimasena are flying away, crushing their own ranks.

Depriving car-warriors of their cars, he struck elephants and steeds and human warriors, O Bharata, with innumerable straight shafts.

The mighty Bhimasena, in that encounter, filled with rage, struck the son of Radha in the shoulder-joint with ninety straight shafts.

These, however, in return shrouded Karna with showers of straight shafts like masses of clouds shrouding the sun in the welkin.

There was something horribly uncanny in those long, straight shafts of light wavering uncertainly across the dense darkness of the night sky.

Filled with rage at this, the ruler of the Madras pierced Satyaki with nine arrows and once again with seventy straight shafts.

Sanjaya said, 'Then the mighty and heroic bowman Karna began to smite the Pandava army in that battle, with his straight shafts.

And Nakula also, that delighter of his race, bending his excellent bow with great vigour, with many straight shafts, slew many elephants.

This, however, is almost always the case; some of the perfectly straight shafts of the trees leaning at an angle of thirty degrees.