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.
and Arjuna and Sahadeva, O sire, together proceeded against it with loud leonine roars from desire of slaying Duryodhana.  Beholding those three warriors rushing quickly together with uplifted bows, Subala’s son proceeded towards that spot against those Pandava foes.  Thy son Sudarsana rushed against Bhimasena.  Susarman and Shakuni encountered Kiritin.  Thy son Duryodhana on horse-back proceeded against Sahadeva.  Then thy son, O ruler of men, with great speed and care, forcibly struck Sahadeva’s head with a lance.  Thus assailed by thy son, Sahadeva sat down on the terrace of his car, all his limbs bathed in blood and himself sighing like a snake.  Regaining his senses then, O king, Sahadeva, filled with rage, covered Duryodhana with keen arrows.  Kunti’s son, Dhananjaya, otherwise called Partha, putting forth his prowess, cut off the heads of many brave combatants on horse-back.  Indeed, Partha, with many arrows, destroyed that (cavalry) division.  Having felled all the steeds, he then proceeded against the cars of the Trigartas.  At this, the great car-warriors of the Trigartas, uniting together, covered Arjuna and Vasudeva with showers of shafts.  Assailing Satyakarman with a razor-headed arrow, the son of Pandu, possessed of great fame, cut off his adversary’s car-shafts.  With another razor-headed arrow, O lord, whetted on stone, that celebrated hero, smiling the while, cut off his antagonist’s head adorned with bright gold.  He next attacked Satyeshu in the sight of all the warriors, like a hungry lion, O king, in the forest, attacking a deer.  Having slain him, Partha pierced Susarman with three arrows and then slew all those car-warriors adorned with ornaments of gold.  He then proceeded against Susarman the ruler of Prashthala with great speed, vomiting the virulent poison of his wrath cherished for many long years.  Covering him first, O bull of Bharata’s race, with a hundred arrows, Arjuna then slew all the steeds of that bowman.  Fixing then on his bowstring a mighty arrow that resembled the rod of Yama, Partha, smiling the while, quickly sped it at Susarman, aiming it at him.  Sped by that bowman blazing with wrath, that arrow, reaching Susarman, pierced through his heart in that battle.  Deprived of life, O monarch, Susarman fell down on the Earth, gladdening all the Pandavas and paining all thy warriors.  Having slain Susarman in that battle, Partha then, with his shafts, despatched the five and thirty sons of that king, all of whom were great car-warriors, to Yama’s abode.  Slaying next all the followers of Susarman with his keen arrows, the mighty car-warrior, Arjuna, proceeded against the remnant of the Bharata host.  Bhima, in that battle, filled with rage, O ruler of men, made thy son Sudarsana invisible with his arrows, and smiling the while, cut off from his antagonist’s trunk his head with a razor-headed arrow of great sharpness.  Deprived of life, the prince fell down on the Earth.  Upon the fall of that (Kuru) hero, his followers encompassed
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