were, O Suta, like lean kine trembling under a wintry sky.  Having penetrated into the midst of the Panchalas how did that great bowman, that scorcher of foes, that tiger among men, meet with his death?[194] When on that night all the troops, united together, and all the great car-warriors combined were being separately ground (by Drona), who were those intelligent men amongst you that were present there?  Thou sayest that my troops were slain or huddled together, or vanquished, and that my car-warriors were made carless in those encounters.  While those combatants became cheerless and were being ground by the Pandavas, what did they think when they sank in such affliction on that dark night?  Thou sayest that the Pandavas were hearty and exceedingly hopeful, and that mine were melancholy and heartless and panic-stricken.  How, O Sanjaya, couldst thou mark the distinction on that night between the Kurus and the unretreating Parthas?’

“Sanjaya said, ’During the progress, O king, of that fierce night-battle, the Pandavas along with the Somakas all rushed against Drona.  Then Drona, with his swift-going shafts, despatched all the Kaikeyas and the sons of Dhrishtadyumna into the world of spirits.  Indeed, all those mighty car-warriors, O king, that advanced right against Drona, all those lords of the earth, were despatched (by him) into the region of the dead.  Then king Sivi, of great prowess, filled with rage, proceeded against that mighty car-warrior, viz., the heroic son of Bharadwaja, while the latter was thus employed in grinding (the hostile combatants).  Beholding that great car-warrior of the Pandavas advancing, Drona pierced him with ten shafts made entirely of iron.  Sivi, however, pierced Drona in return with thirty shafts, winged with Kanka feathers.  And smiling the while, he also, with a broad-headed shaft felled the driver of Drona’s car.  Drona then, slaying the steeds of the illustrious Sivi as also the driver of his car, cut off from his trunk Sivi’s head with head-gear on it.  Then Duryodhana quickly sent unto Drona a driver for his car.  The reins of his steeds having been taken up by the new man, Drona once more rushed against his foes.  The sort of the ruler of the Kalingas, supported by the Kalinga troops, rushed against Bhimasena, filled with rage at the slaughter of his sire by the latter, Having pierced Bhima with five shafts he once more pierced him with seven.  And he struck Visoka (the driver of Bhima’s car) with three shafts and the latter’s standard with one.  The Vrikodara, filled with rage, leaping from his own car to that of his foe, slew with only his fists that angry hero of the Kalingas.  The bones of that prince thus slain in battle by the mighty son of Pandu with only his fists, fell down on the earth separated from one another, Karna and the brother of the slain prince, (and others), could not brook that act of Bhima.  All of them began to strike Bhimasena with keen shafts resembling snakes of virulent poison.