śarair agny-arka-saḿsparśair
āśī-viṣa-durāsadaiḥ
pīḍyamāna-purānīkaḥ
śālvo 'muhyat pareritaiḥ
saraih -- by the arrows; agni -- like fire; arka -- and like the sun; samsparsaih -- whose contact; asi -- of a snake; visha -- like the poison; durasadaih -- intolerable; pidyamana -- distressed; pura -- whose aerial city; anikah -- and whose army; salvah -- Salva; amuhyat -- became bewildered; para -- by the enemy; iritaih -- shot.
Salva 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.
Srila Sridhara Svami 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.
