and steeds with five arrows.  Gladdening his troops thus, he then repeatedly roared like a lion.  Then Arjuna’s son quickly fixed an arrow on his bow-string that was certain to take away Paurava’s life.  Beholding however, that arrow of frightful mien fixed on Abhimanyu’s bow-string, Haridika’s son, with two shafts, cut off that bow and arrow.  Then that slayer of hostile heroes, viz., Subhadra’s son, throwing aside that broken bow, took up a bright sword and a shield.  Whirling with great speed that shield decked with many stars, and whirling that sword also, he coursed on the field, exhibiting his prowess.  Whirling them before him, and whirling them on high, now shaking them and now jumping up himself, from the manner of his handling those weapons, it seemed that (with him) there is no difference between that offensive and that defensive weapons.  Jumping suddenly then upon the shafts of Paurava’s car, he roared aloud.  Mounting next upon his car, he seized Paurava by the hair, and slaying meanwhile with a kick, the latter’s driver, he felled his standard with a stroke of his sword.  And as regards Paurava himself, Abhimanyu raised him up, like the Garuda raising a snake from the bottom of the sea agitating the waters.  Thereupon, all the kings beheld Paurava (standing helpless) with dishevelled hair, and looking like an ox deprived of its senses while on the point of being slain by a lion.  Beholding Paurava thus prostrated, placed under the control of Arjuna’s son, and dragged helplessly, Jayadratha was unable to brook it.  Taking up a sword as also a shield that bore the device of a peacock and was decked with a hundred bells of small size suspended in rows, Jayadratha jumped down from his car with a loud roar.  Then Subhadra’s son (Abhimanyu), beholding the ruler of the Sindhus, let Paurava alone, and leaping up like a hawk from the latter’s car, quickly alighted on the earth.  The lances and aves and scimitars hurled by his foes—­Arjuna’s son cut off by means of his sword or warded off by his shield.  Thus showing unto all the warriors the strength of his own arms the mighty [and heroic] Abhimanyu, once more upraising his large and heavy sword as also his shield,[28] proceeded towards Vriddhakshatra’s son who was a sworn foe of his (Abhimanyu’s) father, like a tiger proceeding against an elephant.  Approaching they cheerfully attacked each other with their swords like a tiger and a lion with their claws and teeth.  And none could notice any difference between those two lions among men as regards the whirl-strokes, and descent of their swords and shields.[29] And as regards the descent and the whiz of their swords, and the warding off of each other’s blows, it seemed there was no distinction between the two.  Coursing, beautifully in outward and inward tracks, those two illustrious warriors seemed to be like two winged mountains.  Then Jayadratha struck on the shield of the renowned Abhimanyu when the latter stretched his sword for making a pass at him.  Then, O Bharata,