Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24


Sanskrit:

शरैरग्‍न्यर्कसंस्पर्शैराशीविषदुरासदै: ।पीड्यमानपुरानीक: शाल्वोऽमुह्यत्परेरितै: ॥ २४ ॥

ITRANS:

śarair agny-arka-saṁsparśairāśī-viṣa-durāsadaiḥpīḍyamāna-purānīkaḥśālvo ’muhyat pareritaiḥ

Translation:

Śālva became bewildered upon seeing his army and aerial city thus harassed by his enemy’s arrows, which struck like fire and the sun and were as intolerable as snake venom.

Purport:

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the arrows of the Yadu commanders burned like fire, struck simultaneously from all sides like the sun’s rays, and, like snake venom, were lethal by a single touch.