Supported by many thousand of cars, and excited with rage and fury, your son Nandaka pierced Bhimasena of great might with keenpointed shafts whetted on stone and winged with the feathers of the Kanka bird. Then also, O monarch, Duryodhana excited with rage, in that fierce fight, struck Bhimasena on the breast with nine whetted shafts. Thereafter the mighty-armed Bhimasena endued with superior strength mounted on his own most excellent chariot and thus addressed his charioteer Vishoka. These heroic and mighty carwarriors, these sons of Dhritarashtra endued with prowess.