न ते ऽदृश्यन्त सञ्छन्नाः शरजालैः समन्ततः ।
पुङ्खानुपुङ्खपतितैर् ज्योतींषीव नभोघनैः ॥ २४ ॥
na te 'drsyanta sanchannah
na-not; te-they (the demigods); adrsyanta-were seen; sanchannah-being completely covered; sara-jalaih-by networks of arrows; samantatah-all around; puṅkha-anupuṅkha-one arrow after another; patitaih-falling; jyotimsi iva-like the stars in the sky; nabhah-ghanaih-by the dense clouds.
As the stars in the sky cannot be seen when covered by dense clouds, the demigods, being completely covered by networks of arrows falling upon them one after another, could not be seen.