Others, urged by thy son, and desirous of slaying
Satwata, encompassed the latter on all sides, armed
with missiles. Then, Satyaki, aiming at those
warriors rushing at him from desire of fighting with
stones, sped at them showers of keen shafts.
That bull amongst the Sinis, with those shafts looking
like snakes, cut into fragments that dense shower
of stones thrown by the mountaineers. The fragments
of those stones, looking like a swarm of blazing fire-flies,
slew many combatants there, whereupon, O sire, cries
of oh and alas arose on the field. Then, again,
five hundred brave warriors with huge stones uplifted
in their hands, fell down, O king, on the ground,
their arms cut off. And once more a full thousand,
and again a hundred thousand, amongst others, fell
down without being able to approach Satyaki, their
arms with stones still in grasp cut off by him.
Indeed, Satyaki slew many thousands of those warriors
fighting with stones. All this seemed exceedingly
wonderful. Then many of them, returning to the
fight, hurled at Satyaki showers of stones, And armed
with swords and lances many Daradas and Tanganas and
Khasas and Lampakas and Pulindas, hurled their weapons
at him. Satyaki however, well-conversant with
the application of weapons, cut off those stones and
weapons by means of his shafts. Those stones while
being pierced, broken in the welkin by Satyaki’s
whetted shafts, produced a fierce noise, at which
many car-warriors and steeds and elephants fled away
from battle. And struck with the fragments of
those stones, men and elephants and steeds, became
incapable of staying in battle, for they felt as if
they were bit by wasps. The small remnant of
the elephants (that had attacked Satyaki), covered
with blood, their heads, and frontal globes split open,
then fled away from, Yuyudhana’s car. Then
there arose among thy troops, O sire, while they were
being thus ground by Madhava a noise like that of
the ocean at full tide. Hearing that great uproar,
Drona, addressing his charioteer, said, ’O Suta,
that great car-warrior of the Satwata race, excited
with wrath, is tearing our army into diverse fragments,
and careering in battle like the Destroyer himself.
Take thou the car to that spot whence this furious
uproar is coming. Without doubt, Yuyudhana is
engaged with the mountaineers who battle with stones,
Our car-warriors are seen also to be borne away by
their wildly running steeds. Many amongst them,
weaponless and armourless and wounded, are falling
down. The charioteers are unable to check their
steeds as these are rushing wildly.’ Hearing
these words of Bharadwaja’s son, the charioteer
said unto Drona, that foremost of wielders of weapons,
’Thou blest with length of days, the Katirava
troops are flying away. Behold, our warriors,
routed (by the foe), are flying in all directions.
There, again, those heroes, viz., the Panchalas,
and the Pandavas, united together, are rushing from
all sides from desire of slaughtering thee, O chastiser