Mounting that chariot, excellent, adorned with gold and gems, Ghatotkacha roared like a lion, and, approaching Vaikartana Karna, pierced him with arrows like thunderbolts. Both — with barbed, iron, sting-tipped arrows, and tubular ones, and calf-tooth ones, boar-eared ones with horned points, and downpours of razor-arrows — filled the sky with their roar. That firmament, covered with streams of arrows flying aslant, shone in the battle with the blaze of golden-feathered shafts, as though with many-colored garlands. For the two of them, of unequalled might, matched each other, striking one another with the finest weapons; and of those two best of heroes no one saw in that battle any difference.