asyatas te Å›ara-vrÄtair
hanyamÄnÄḥ samantataḥ
jijīviṣava utsṛjya
palÄyana-parÄ yayuḥ

 asyataḥ - pierced by your discharged arrows; te - your; Å›ara-vrÄtaiḥ - by the multitude of arrows; hanyamÄnÄḥ - being killed; samantataḥ - here and there; jijÄ«viá¹£avaḥ - aspiring to live; utsá¹›jya - giving up the battlefield; palÄyana-parÄḥ - intent on escaping; yayuḥ - they fled (the fighting).


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While being pierced by your arrows, which you discharged on all sides, some of them, who were injured by the multitude of arrows but who desired to live, fled the battlefield, intent on escaping.

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