“Sanjaya said, ’O bull of Bharata’s race, overtaken by a calamity that is the direct result of thy own fault, thou shouldst not, O hero, indulge in such lamentations like an ordinary person.  Formerly, many of thy wise well-wishers, numbering Vidura amongst them, had told thee, ’Do not, O king, abandon the sons of Pandu.’  Thou didst not then heed those words.  The man that heedeth not the counsels of well-wishing friends, weepeth, falling into great distress, like thyself.  He of Dasarha’s race, O king, had formerly begged thee for peace.  For all that, Krishna of world-wide fame, obtained not his prayer.  Ascertaining thy worthlessness, and thy jealousy towards the Pandavas, and understanding also thy crooked intentions towards the sons of Pandu, and hearing thy delirious lamentations, O best of kings, that puissant Lord of all the worlds, that Being, acquainted with the truth of everything in all the worlds, viz., Vasudeva, then caused the flame of war to blaze forth among the Kurus.  This great and wholesale destruction hath come upon thee, brought about by thy own fault.  O giver of honours, it behoveth thee not to impute the fault to Duryodhana.  In the development of these incidents no merit of thine is to be seen in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end.  This defeat is entirely owing to thee.  Therefore, knowing as thou dost the truth about this world, be quiet and hear how this fierce battle, resembling that between the gods and the Asuras, took place.  After the grandson of Sini, that warrior of prowess incapable of being baffled, had entered into thy host, the Parthas headed by Bhimasena also rushed against thy troops.  The mighty car-warrior Kritavarman, however, alone, resisted, in that battle the Pandavas thus rushing in fury and wrath with their followers against thy host.  As the continent resists the surgings, even so did the son of Hridika resist the troops of the Pandavas in that battle.  The prowess that we then beheld of the son of Hridika was wonderful, inasmuch as the united Parthas succeeded not in transgressing his single self.  Then the mighty-armed Bhima, piercing Kritavarman with three shafts, blew his conch, gladdening all the Pandavas.  Then Sahadeva pierced the son of Hridika with twenty shafts, and Yudhishthira the just pierced him with five and Nakula pierced him with a hundred.  And the sons of Draupadi pierced him with three and seventy shafts, Ghatotkacha pierced him with seven.  And Virata and Drupada and Drupada’s son (Dhrishtadyumna) each Pierced him with five shafts, and Sikhandin, having once pierced him with five, again pierced him smilingly with five and twenty shafts.  Then Kritavarman, O king, pierced every one of those great car-warriors with five shafts, and Bhima again with seven.  And the son of Hridika felled both the bow and the standard of Bhima from the latter’s car.  Then that mighty car-warrior, with great speed, wrathfully struck Bhima, whose bow had been cut off with seventy keen