skandah pradyumna-banaughair

 ardyamanah samantatah

asrg vimuñcan gatrebhyah

 sikhinapakramad ranat

 

Translation: 

 

Lord Kartikeya was distressed by the flood of Pradyumna’s arrows raining down from all sides, and thus he fled the battlefield on his peacock as blood poured from his limbs.