arrow, piercing through the armour of Satyaki, and passing through his body, entered the earth like a hissing snake entering its hole.  His armour pierced through, the heroic Satyaki, like an elephant deeply struck with the hook, became bathed in blood that flowed from his wound.  His bow, with arrow fixed thereon, being then loosened from his grasp, he sat down on the terrace of his car strengthless and covered all over with blood.  Seeing this his driver speedily bore him away from Drona’s son.  With another shaft, perfectly straight and equipped with goodly wings that scorcher of foes, viz., Aswatthaman, struck Dhrishtadyumna between his eyebrows.  The Panchala prince had before this been much pierced; therefore, deeply wounded by that arrow, he became exceedingly weak and supported himself by seizing his flag-staff.  Beholding Dhrishtadyumna thus afflicted by Aswatthaman, like an infuriated elephant by a lion, five heroic car-warriors of the Pandava army, viz., Kiritin, Bhimasena, Vrihatkshatra of Puru’s race, the youthful prince of the Chedis, and Sudarsana, the chief of the Malavas, quickly rushed against Aswatthaman.  Armed with bows, all these rushed with cries Oh and Alas.  And those heroes quickly encompassed the son of Drona on all sides.  Advancing twenty paces, all of them, with great care, simultaneously struck the angry son of the preceptor with five and twenty arrows.  Drona’s son, however, with five and twenty shafts, resembling snakes of virulent poison, cut off, almost at the same time, those five and twenty arrows shot at him.  Then Aswatthaman afflicted the Paurava prince with seven sharp shafts.  And he afflicted the chief of the Malavas with three, Partha with one, and Vrikodara with six shafts.  Then all those great car-warriors, O king, pierced Drona’s son unitedly and separately with many shafts, whetted on stone equipped with wings of gold.  The youthful prince of the Chedis pierced Drona’s son with twenty and Partha pierced him with three.  Then Drona’s son struck Arjuna with six arrows, and Vasudeva with six, and Bhima with five, and each of the other two viz., the Malava and the Paurava, with two arrows.  Piercing next the driver of’ Bhima’s car with six arrows, Aswatthaman cut off Bhimasena’s bow and standard with a couple of arrows.  Then piercing Partha once more with a shower of arrows, Drona’s son uttered a leonine roar.  With the sharp, well-tempered, and terrible arrows shot by Drona’s son, the earth, the sky, the firmament, and the points of the compass, cardinal and subsidiary, all became entirely shrouded both in his front and rear.  Endued with fierce energy and equal to Indra himself in prowess, Aswatthaman with three arrows, almost simultaneously cut off the two arms, like unto Indra’s poles, and the head of Sudarsana, as the latter was seated on his car.  Then piercing Paurava with a dart and cutting off his car into minute fragments by means of his arrows, Aswatthaman lopped off his antagonist’s