250 ([return])
[ I adopt the Bombay reading of the first line of this verse.]
251 ([return])
[ All these arrows inflicted had wounds and could not be easily extracted. Shafts of crooked courses were condemned because the combatants could not easily baffle them, not knowing at whom they would fall.]
252 ([return])
[ This verse is omitted in the Bombay text. There can be no doubt, however, about its genuineness.]
253 ([return])
[ The celestial weapons were all living agents that appeared at the bidding of him who knew to invoke them. They abandoned, however, the person whose death was imminent, although invoked with the usual formulae.]
254 ([return])
[ I adopt the Bombay reading.]