monarch, thy son Duhsasana, O king, remained fearlessly
in battle and began to afflict Satyaki with arrows.
And piercing the four steeds of Satyaki with four arrows,
his charioteer with three, and Satyaki himself with
a hundred in that battle, Duhsasana uttered a loud
roar, Then, O monarch, Madhava, inflamed with rage,
soon made Duhsasana’s car and driver and standard
and Duhsasana himself invisible by means of his straight
arrows. Indeed, Satyaki entirely shrouded the
brave Duhsasana with arrows. Like a spider entangling
a gnat within reach by means of its threads, that
vanquisher of foes quickly covered Duhsasana with
his shafts. Then King Duryodhana, seeing Duhsasana
thus covered with arrows, urged a body of Trigartas
towards the car of Yuyudhana. Those Trigarta
car-warriors, of fierce deeds, accomplished in battle,
and numbering three thousand, proceeded towards Yuyudhana.
Firmly resolved upon battle and swearing not to retreat,
all of them encompassed Yuyudhana with a large throng
of cars, Soon, however, Yuyudhana struck down five
hundred of their foremost warriors stationed in the
van of the force as it advanced towards him in battle,
shooting showers of arrows at him. Speedily slain
by that foremost one amongst the Sinis with his shafts,
these fell down, like tall trees from mountain-tops
uprooted by a tempest. And the field of battle,
strewn with mangled elephants, O monarch, and fallen
standards, and bodies of steeds decked in trappings
of gold, and torn and lacerated with the shafts of
Sini’s grandson and weltering in blood, looked
beautiful, O king, like a plain overgrown with flowering
Kinsukas. Those soldiers of thine, thus slaughtered
by Yuyudhana, failed to find a protector like elephants
sunk in a morass. Then all of them turned towards
the spot where Drona’s car was, like mighty
snakes making towards holes from fear of the prince
of birds. Having slain those five hundred brave
warriors by in means of his shafts, resembling snakes
of virulent poison, that hero slowly proceeded towards
the place where Dhananjaya was. And as that foremost
of men was thus proceeding thy son Duhsasana quickly
pierced him with nine straight arrows. That mighty
bowman then (Yuyudhana), pierced Duhsasana, in return,
with five straight and sharp arrows equipped with golden
wings and vulturine feather. Then Duhsasana,
O Bharata, smiling the while, pierced Satyaki, O monarch,
with three arrows, and once more with five. The
grandson of Sini, then, striking thy Son with five
arrows and Cutting off his bow proceeded smilingly
towards Arjuna. Then Duhsasana, inflamed with
wrath and desirous of slaying the Vrishni hero, hurled
at him, as he proceeded, a dart made wholly of iron.
Satyaki, however, O king, cut off, with his shafts,
equipped with Kanka feathers, that fierce dart Of thy
son. Then, O ruler of men, then, thy son, taking
up another bow, pierced Satyaki with some arrows and
uttered a loud roar. Then Satyaki excited with
wrath, stupefying thy son in that battle, struck him