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


