eyes uplifted; and displaying as it were a novel type of beauty.  And the wives of Yakshas and Gandharvas sitting invisible by the side of their husbands, stared at him, turning their faces with various motions.  Intent upon gratifying Draupadi exiled unto the woods, as he was ranging the beautiful Gandhamadana, he remembered the many and various woes caused by Duryodhana.  And he thought, ’Now that Arjuna sojourn in heaven and that I too have come away to procure the flowers, what will our brother Yudhishthira do at present?  Surely, from affection and doubting their prowess, that foremost of men, Yudhishthira, will not let Nakula and Sahadeva come in search of us.  How, again, can I obtain the flowers soon?’ Thinking thus, that tiger among men proceeded in amain like unto the king of birds, his mind and sight fixed on the delightful side of the mountain.  And having for his provisions on the journey the words of Draupadi, the mighty son of Pandu, Vrikodara Bhima, endued with strength and the swiftness of the wind, with his mind and sight fixed on the blooming slopes of the mountain, proceeded speedily, making the earth tremble with his tread, even as doth a hurricane at the equinox; and frightening herds of elephants and grinding lions and tigers and deer and uprooting and smashing large trees and tearing away by force plants and creepers, like unto an elephant ascending higher and higher the summit of a mountain; and roaring fiercely even as a cloud attended with thunder.  And awakened by that mighty roaring of Bhima, tigers came out of their dens, while other rangers of the forest hid themselves.  And the coursers of the skies sprang up (on their wing) in fright.  And herds of deer hurriedly ran away.  And birds left the trees (and fled).  And lions forsook their dens.  And the mighty lions were roused from their slumber.  And the buffaloes stared.  And the elephants in fright, leaving that wood, ran to more extensive forests company with their mates.  And the boars and the deer and the lions and the buffaloes and the tigers and the jackals and the gavayas of the wood began to cry in herds.  And the ruddy geese, and the gallinules and the ducks and the karandavas and the plavas and the parrots and the male kokilas and the herons in confusion flew in all directions, while some proud elephants urged by their mates, as also some lions and elephants in rage, flew at Bhimasena.  And as they were distracted at heart through fear, these fierce animals discharging urine and dung, set up loud yells with gapping mouths.  Thereupon the illustrious and graceful son of the wind-god, the mighty Pandava, depending upon the strength of his arms, began to slay one elephant with another elephant and one lion with another lion while he despatched the others with slaps.  And on being struck by Bhima the lions and the tigers and the leopards, in fright gave loud cries and discharged urine and dung.  And after having destroyed these the handsome son of Pandu, possessed of mighty strength, entered into