“Sanjaya continued, ’Beholding the son of Pandu rushing towards him like an elephant towards a rival elephant, Karna fearlessly proceeded against Dhananjaya.  Partha, however, soon covered Karna who was thus advancing with great impetuosity, with showers of straight shafts, equipped with wings of gold.  Karna also covered Vijaya with his shafts.  The son of Pandu then once more shrouded Karna with clouds of arrows.  Then Karna, filled with rage, pierced Arjuna with three shafts.  The mighty car-warrior, Arjuna, beholding Karna’s lightness of hand, could not brook it.  That scorcher of foes shot at the Suta’s son thirty straight shafts, whetted on stone and equipped with blazing points.  Endued with great might and energy, he also pierced him, in rage, with another long arrow on the wrist of his left arm, smiling the while.  Karna’s bow then dropped from that arm of his, which had thus been pierced with great force.  Then the mighty Karna, taking up that bow within the twinkling of an eye, once more covered Phalguna with clouds of shafts, displaying great lightness of hard.  Dhananjaya then, O Bharata, smiling the while, baffled with his own shafts, that arrowy shower shot by the Suta’s son.  Approaching each other, those two great bowmen, desirous of counteracting each other’s feats, continued to cover each other with showers of shafts.  The battle that took place between them, viz., Karna and the son of Pandu, became exceedingly wonderful, like that between the two wild elephants for the sake of a she-elephant in her season.  Then the mighty bowman Partha, beholding Karna’s prowess, quickly cut of the latter’s bow at the handle.  And he also despatched the four steeds of the Suta’s son to Yama’s abode with a number of broad-headed shafts.  And that scorcher of foes also cut off from the trunk the head of Karna’s driver.  Then, the son of Pandu and Pritha pierced the bowless, the steedless, and the driverless Karna with four shafts.  Then that bull among men Karna, afflicted with those shafts, specially jumping down from that steedless car, mounted upon that of Kripa.  Beholding the son of Radha vanquished, thy, warriors, O bull of Bharata’s race, fled away in all directions.  Seeing them fly away, king Duryodhana himself checked them and said these words, ’Ye heroes, do not fly away.  Ye bulls among Kshatriyas, stay in battle.  I myself will now advance for slaying Partha in battle.  I myself will slay Partha with the assembled Panchalas.  While I shall fight with the wielder of Gandiva today, Partha will behold my prowess to resemble that of the Destroyer himself at the end of the Yuga.  Today the Parthas shall behold my shafts shot in thousands to resemble flights of locusts.  The combatants shall behold me today shooting, bow in hand, dense showers of shafts, like torrents of rain poured by the clouds at the end of the summer season.  I shall today vanquish Partha with my straight shafts.  Stay, ye heroes, in battle, and remove your fear or