“Sanjaya said, ’The illustrious son of Somadatta pierced each of the sons of Draupadi, those great bowmen, with five arrows, and once more with seven arrows.  Much afflicted, O lord, by that fierce warrior, they were stupefied and knew not for some time what to do.  Then that crusher of foes, Satanika, the son of Nakula, piercing Somadatta’s son, that bull among men, with a couple of arrows, uttered in joy a loud roar.  The other brothers then, struggling vigorously, quickly pierced the wrathful son of Somadatta, each with three straight shafts.  Then the illustrious son of Somadatta, O monarch, sped at them five shafts, piercing each of them in the chest with one shaft.  Then those five brothers, thus pierced by that high-souled warrior with his shafts, surrounded that hero on every side and began to pierce him deeply with their shafts.  Then the son of Arjuna, filled with rage, despatched with keen shafts, the four steeds of Saumadatti to the region of Yama.  And the son of Bhimasena, cutting off the bow of the illustrious son of Somadatta, uttered a loud shout and pierced his foe with many sharp arrows.  The son of Yudhishthira then, cutting off Saumadatti’s standard, felled it en the earth, while the son of Nakula felled the enemy’s charioteer from his niche in the car.  Then the son of Sahadeva, ascertaining the foe to be on the point of leaving the field in consequence of the brothers, cut off, with a razor-faced arrow, the head of that illustrious warrior.  That head, decked with ear-rings of gold, fell on the earth and adorned the field like the sun of brilliant effulgence that rises at the end of the Yuga.  Beholding the head of the high-souled son of Somadatta thus fallen on the ground, thy troops, O king, overcome with fear, fled in all directions.

“The Rakshasa Alamvusha in that battle, filled with rage, fought with the mighty Bhimasena, like Ravana’s son (Indrajit) with (Rama’s brother) Lakshmana.  Beholding that Rakshasa and that human warrior engaged in fight, all creatures experienced both joy and wonder.  Then Bhima, O king, laughing the while, pierced that wrathful prince of Rakshasa, viz., Rishyasringa’s son (Alamvusha), with nine keen shafts.  Then that Rakshasa, thus pierced in battle, uttered a loud and awful sound, and rushed, with all his followers, against Bhima.  Piercing Bhima then with five straight shafts, he quickly destroyed in that battle, thirty cars supporting Bhima.  And once more destroying four hundred cars of Bhimasena, the Rakshasa pierced Bhimasena himself with winged arrows.  Then the mighty Bhima deeply pierced by the Rakshasa, sat down on the terrace of his car, overcome by a swoon.  The son of the Wind-god then, recovering his senses, became filled with rage.  Drawing his excellent and terrible bow that was capable of bearing a great strain, he afflicted Alamvusha, in every part of his body, with keen shafts.  Thereupon, the Rakshasa who resembled a huge mass of antimony, looked resplendent O king, like a flowering Kinsuka.