ten shafts.  Then Ghatotkacha, thus pierced by the Suta’s son in his vital parts and feeling great pain, took up a celestial wheel having a thousand radii.  The edge of that wheel was sharp as a razor.  Possessed of the splendour of the morning sun, and decked with jewels and gems, Bhimasena’s son hurled that wheel at the son of Adhiratha, desirous of making an end of the latter.  That wheel, however, of great power and hurled also with great might, was cut off into pieces by Karna with his shafts, and fell down, baffled of its object, like the hopes and purposes of an unfortunate man.  Filled with rage upon beholding his wheel baffled, Ghatotkacha covered Karna with showers of shafts, like Rahu covering the sun.  The Suta’s son, however, endued with the prowess of Rudra or of Indra’s younger brother or of Indra, fearlessly shrouded Ghatotkacha’s car in a moment with winged arrows.  Then Ghatotkacha, whirling a gold-decked mace, hurled it at Karna.  Karna, however, with his shafts, cutting it off, caused it to fall down.  Then soaring into the sky and roaring deep like a mass of clouds, the gigantic Rakshasa poured from the welkin a perfect shower of trees.  Then Karna pierced with his shafts Bhima’s son in the sky, that Rakshasa acquainted with illusions, like the sun piercing with his rays a mass of clouds.  Slaying then all the steeds of Ghatotkacha, and cutting also his car into a hundred pieces, Karna began to pour upon him his arrows like a cloud pouring torrents of rain.  On Ghatotkacha’s body there was not even two finger’s breadth of space that was not pierced with Karna’s shafts.  Soon the Rakshasa seemed to be like a porcupine with quills erect on his body.  So completely was he shrouded with shafts that we could not in that battle, any longer see either the steeds or the car or the standard of Ghatotkacha or Ghatotkacha himself.  Destroying then by his own weapon, the celestial weapon of Karna, Ghatotkacha, endued with the power of illusion, began to fight with the Suta’s son, aided by his powers of illusion.  Indeed, he began to fight with Karna, aided by his illusion and displaying the greatest activity.  Showers of shafts fell from an invisible source from the welkin.  Then Bhimasena’s son, endued with great prowess of illusion, O foremost of the Kurus, assumed a fierce from, aided by those powers, began to stupefy the Kauravas, O Bharata!  The valiant Rakshasa, assuming many fierce and grim heads, began to devour the celestial weapons of the Suta’s son.  Soon again, the gigantic Rakshasa, with a hundred wounds on his body seemed to lie cheerlessly, as if dead, on the field.  The Kaurava bulls then, regarding Ghatotkacha deed, uttered loud shouts (of joy).  Soon, however, he was seen on all sides, careering in new forms.  Once more, he was seen to assume a prodigious form, with a hundred heads and a hundred stomachs, and looking like the Mainaka mountain.[235] Once again, becoming small about the measure of the thumb, he moved about transversely or soared aloft