तावुभावम्बरे बाणावन्योन्यमभिजन्नतुः। तेजसा संप्रदीप्ताग्रो कुद्धाविव भुंजगमौ।। तावन्योन्य विनिर्दह्य पेततुः पृथिवीतले॥ निरर्चिषौ भस्मकृतौ न भ्राजेते शरोत्तमौ। तावुभौ दीप्यमानौ स्म न भ्राजेते महीतले॥
tāvubhāvambare bāṇāvanyonyamabhijannatuḥ| tejasā saṃpradīptāgro kuddhāviva bhuṃjagamau|| tāvanyonya vinirdahya petatuḥ pṛthivītale|| nirarciṣau bhasmakṛtau na bhrājete śarottamau| tāvubhau dīpyamānau sma na bhrājete mahītale||
English Meaning
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.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)