O monarch, resisted Bhimasena’s son, viz.,
Rakshasa (Ghatotkacha) acquainted with a hundred kinds
of illusion, as the latter advanced. Vrishasena.
in that battle resisted the mighty Drupada with his
troops and followers as the latter advanced for getting
at Drona. The ruler of the Madras, O king, excited
with wrath resisted Virata, O Bharata, as the latter
quickly advanced for the slaughter of Drona; Chitrasena,
in that battle, resisted, with great force and shooting
many shafts, Nakula’s son, Satanika, as the latter
advanced for slaying Drona. The prince of the
Rakshasas, viz., Alambhusha, O king, resisted
Arjuna, that foremost of car-warriors, as the latter
advanced. Dhrishtadyumna, the prince of the Panchalas,
cheerfully resisted the great bowman Drona as the
latter was engaged in slaughtering the foe. As
regards the mighty car-warriors of the Pandavas, that
advanced (against Drona), other car-warriors of thy
army, O king, resisted them with great force.
Elephant riders speedily encountering elephant riders
in that dreadful battle, began to fight, with each
other and grind each other by thousands. At dead
of night, O monarch, as the steeds rushed against each
other with impetuosity, they looked like winged hills.
Horsemen, O monarch, encountered horsemen, armed with
lances and darts and swords, and uttering loud shouts.
Large numbers of men slaughtered one another in heaps,
with maces and short clubs and diverse other weapons.
Kritavarman, the son of Hridika, excited with wrath,
resisted Dharma’s son, Yudhishthira, like continents
resisting the swelling sea. Yudhishthira, however,
piercing Hridika’s son with five arrows, once
more pierced him with twenty, and addressing him,
said, Wait, Wait.’ Then Kritavarman, O
sire, excited with wrath, cut off with a broad-headed
shaft, the bow of king Yudhishthira the just and pierced
the latter with seven arrows. Taking up another
bow, that mighty car-warrior, viz., Dharma’s
son, pierced the son of Hridika in the arms and chest
with ten arrows. Then that warrior of Madhu’s
race, thus pierced, O sire, by Dharma’s son in
that battle, trembled with rage and afflicted Yudhishthira
with seven shafts. Then Pritha’s son cutting
off his enemy’s bow as also the leathern fence
that cased his hands, sped at him five keen shafts
whetted on stone. Those fierce shafts, piercing
through the latter’s costly armour, decked with
gold, entered the earth like snakes into an ant-hill.
With the twinkling of an eye, Kritavarman, taking up
another bow, pierced the son of Pandu with sixty arrows
and once more with ten. Of immeasurable soul,
the son of Pandu, then placing his large bow on his
car, sped at Kritavarman a dart resembling a snake.
That dart decked with gold, shot by the son of Pandu,
piercing through Kritavarman’s right arm, entered
the earth. Meanwhile, Pritha’s son, taking
up his formidable bow, shrouded the son of Hridika
with showers of straight shafts. Then brave Kritavarman,