one another, and rushed hither and thither.  In consequence of cars having their steeds and drivers slain, and steeds having their riders slain, and elephants having their riders and guides slain, an awful carnage, O king, was made by Partha in that battle!  Car-warriors, deprived of life with shafts sped from Partha’s bow, fell down.  Steeds freed from their trappings ran hither and thither.  Beholding those feats of Partha, that ornament of battle, that valiant son of Drona quickly approached the former, that foremost of victorious men, shook his formidable bow decked with gold, and then pierced him from every side with many sharp arrows.  Once more bending the bow, O king, the son of Drona cruelly struck Arjuna, aiming at the chest, with a winged arrow.  Deeply pierced by Drona’s son, O Bharata, in that encounter, the wielder of gandiva, that hero of great intelligence forcibly covered the son of Drona with showers of arrows, and then cut off his bow.  His bow cut off Drona’s son then, taking up a spiked mace whose touch resembled that of thunder’s, hurled it, in that encounter, at the diadem-decked Arjuna.  The son of Pandu, however, O king, as if smiling the while, suddenly cut off that spiked mace decked with gold, as it advanced towards him.  Thus cut off with Partha’s shafts, it fell down on the Earth, like a mountain, O king, broken into pieces, struck with the thunderbolt.  Filled with rage at this, Drona’s son, that great car-warrior, began to cover Vibhatsu, aided by the energy of the aindra weapon.  Beholding that shower of arrows spread over the welkin through the aindra weapon, Partha, endued with great activity, O king, taking up his bow gandiva, and fixing on his bowstring a mighty weapon created by Indra, destroyed that aindra-shower of arrows.  Having baffled that arrowy shower caused by the aindra weapon, Partha soon covered the car of Drona’s son (with his own arrows).  The son of Drona, however, overwhelmed with Partha’s shafts, penetrated through that shower of arrows shot by the son of Pandu, and approaching the latter, invoked a mighty weapon and suddenly pierced Krishna with hundred shafts and Arjuna with three hundred small arrows.  Then Arjuna pierced the son of his preceptor with a hundred arrows in all his vital limbs.  And then he poured many arrows on the steeds and driver and the bowstring of Drona’s son in the very sight of thy warriors.  Having pierced Drona’s son in every vital part, Pandu’s son, that slayer of hostile heroes, then felled his adversary’s driver from the car-niche with a broad-headed arrow.  Drona’s son, however, himself, taking up the reins, covered Krishna with many arrows.  The activity of prowess that we then beheld in Drona’s son was exceedingly wonderful, since he guided his steeds while he fought with Phalguni.  That feat of his in battle, O king, was applauded by all the warriors.  Then Vibhatsu, otherwise called Jaya, smiling the while, quickly cut off the traces of Ashvatthama’s steeds in that battle, with