स तानापततो वीर उग्रधन्वा महारथ: । एकैकं युगपत्सर्वानहन् बाणैस्त्रिभिस्त्रिभि: ॥ ८ ॥
sa tan apatato vira ugra-dhanva maha-rathah ekaikam yugapat sarvan ahan banais tribhis tribhih
- sah
- Dhruva Maharaja
- tan
- all of them
- apatatah
- falling upon him
- virah
- hero
- ugra-dhanva
- powerful bowman
- maha-rathah
- who could fight with many chariots
- eka-ekam
- one after another
- yugapat
- simultaneously
- sarvan
- all of them
- ahan
- killed
- banaih
- by arrows
- tribhih tribhih
- by threes.
Dhruva Maharaja, who was a great charioteer and certainly a great bowman also, immediately began to kill them by simultaneously discharging arrows three at a time.