The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,886 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,886 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3.
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
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