others deserted their comrades. Some car-warriors
were deprived of their animals. Others lost their
drivers. Some had their poles or yokes or wheels
broken, O king! The arrows of some were exhausted.
Some were seen afflicted with arrows. Some, though
unwounded, fled in a body, afflicted with fear.
Some endeavoured to rescue their sons, having lost
all their kinsmen and animals. Some loudly called
upon their sires, some upon their comrades and followers.
Some fled, deserting their kinsmen, O tiger among
men, and brothers and other relatives, O monarch!
Many mighty car-warriors, struck with Partha’s
shafts and deeply pierced therewith, were seen to breathe
hard, deprived of their senses. Others, taking
them upon their own cars, and soothing them for a
while, and resting them and dispelling their thirst
by offering them drink, once more proceeded to battle.
Some, incapable of being easily defeated in battle,
deserting the wounded, once more advanced to battle,
desirous of obeying the behests of thy son. Some,
having slaked their thirst or groomed their animals,
and some, wearing (fresh) armour, O chief of the Bharatas,
and some, having comforted their brothers and sons
and sires, and placed them in camp, once more came
to battle. Some, arraying their cars in the order,
O king, of superiors and inferiors, advanced against
the Pandavas once more for battle. Those heroes
(on their cars) covered with rows of bells, looked
resplendent like Daityas and Danavas intent on the
conquest of the three worlds. Some, advancing
with precipitancy on their vehicles decked with gold,
fought with Dhrishtadyumna amid the Pandava divisions.
The Pancala prince Dhrishtadyumna, and the great car-warrior
Shikhandi, and Satanika, the son of Nakula, fought
with the car-force of the enemy. The Pancala
prince, then, filled with rage and supported by a large
army, rushed against thy angry troops from desire
of slaying them. Then thy son, O ruler of men,
sped many showers of arrows, O Bharata, at the Pancala
prince thus rushing at him. Then, O king, Dhrishtadyumna
was quickly pierced with many arrows in his arms and
chest by thy son fighting with his bow. Deeply
pierced therewith like an elephant with pointed lances,
that great bowman then despatched with his shafts the
four steeds of Duryodhana to the regions of death.
With another broad-headed arrow he next cut off from
his trunk the head of his enemy’s driver.
Then that chastiser of foes, king Duryodhana, having
thus lost his car, rode on horse-back and retreated
to a spot not remote. Beholding his own army
destitute of prowess, thy son, the mighty Duryodhana,
O king, proceeded to the place where Subala’s
son was. When the Kaurava cars were broken, 3,000
gigantic elephants encompassed those car-warriors,
the five Pandavas. Encompassed by that elephant
force, O Bharata, the five brothers looked beautiful,
O tiger among men, like the planets surrounded by
the clouds. Then the mighty-armed and white-steeded


