who was displaying such lightness of hand and who showered such clouds of shafts.  Struck with panic and crushed grounded thus by that hero of long arms, those brave warriors all left the field at the sight of that proud hero.  Although alone, they saw him multiplied manifold, and were stupefied by his energy.  And the earth looked exceedingly beautiful with crushed cars and broken nidas,[150] O sire, and wheels and fallen umbrellas and standards and anukarshas, and banners, and headgears decked with gold, and human arms smeared with sandal-paste and adorned with Angadas, O king, and human thighs, resembling trunks of elephants or the tapering bodies of snakes, and faces, beautiful as the moon and decked with ear-rings, of large-eyed warriors lying all about the field.  And the ground there looked exceedingly beautiful with the huge bodies of fallen elephants, cut off in diverse ways, like a large plain strewn with hills.  Crushed by that hero of long arms, steeds, deprived of life and fallen down on the ground, looked beautiful in their traces made of burnished gold and decked with rows of pearls, and in their carcasses of handsome make and design.  Having slain diverse kinds of thy troops, he of the Satwata race entered into thy host, agitating and routing thy army.  Then Satyaki desired to go by that very track by which Dhananjaya had gone before him.  Then Drona came and resisted him.  Encountering the son of Bharadwaja, Yuyudhana., filled with rage, stopped not like a vast expanse of water upon encountering on embankment.  Drona, however, checking in that battle the mighty car-warrior Yuyudhana, pierced him with five keen shafts, capable of penetrating into the very vitals.  Satyaki, however, O king, in that battle pierced Drona with seven shafts whetted on stone, equipped with golden wings and the feathers of the Kanka and the peacock.  Then Drona, afflicted Satyaki, his steeds and the drivers, with six shafts.  The mighty car-warrior Yuyudhana could not brook that feat of Drona.  Uttering a leonine shout, he then pierced Drona with ten shafts, and then with six, and then with eight others.  And once more Yuyudhana pierced Drona with ten shafts, his charioteer with one and his four steeds with four.  And with another shaft, O sire, Satyaki struck Drona’s standard.  Then, Drona speedily covered Satyaki, his car, steeds, driver, and standard, with swiftly coursing shafts, countless in number like a flight of locusts.  Similarly, Yuyudhana fearlessly covered Drona with countless shafts of great speed.  Then Drona, addressing Yuyudhana, said, ’Thy preceptor (Arjuna) hath, like a coward, gone away, leaving the battle, avoiding me who was fighting with him, proceeding by my flank.  O thou of Madhu’s race, if like thy preceptor, thou too dost not quickly avoid me in this battle, thou shalt not escape me with life today, engaged as I am in battle with thee.

“Satyaki, hearing these words, answered, ’At the command of king Yudhishthira the just, I shall follow in the track of Dhananjaya.  Blessed be thou, O Brahmana, I would lose time (if I fight with thee).  A disciple should always tread in the way trod by his preceptor.  I shall, therefore follow in the track that has been trod by my preceptor.’