tāvubhāvambare bāṇāvanyonyamabhijannatuḥ| tejasā saṃpradīptāgro kuddhāviva bhuṃjagamau|| tāvanyonya vinirdahya petatuḥ pṛthivītale|| nirarciṣau bhasmakṛtau na bhrājete śarottamau| tāvubhau dīpyamānau sma na bhrājete mahītale||
There like a pair of infuriated serpents, those arrows with their heads flaming in energy, baffled each other in the sky. And burning each other, the shafts fell on the earth; and those best of arrows, shorn of brilliance and reduced to ashes, were deprived of their splendour. And having blazed in the welkin, those two fell down to the earth reft of their lustre.