son, O sire, quickly broke that elephant division.  These elephants, huge as hills, and with ichor trickling down from every part of their bodies, were mangled and forced to turn back by Bhimasena with his arrows.  Indeed, as the wind, when it riseth, driveth away gathering masses of clouds, so did that son of Pavana rout that elephant force of the Kauravas.  And Bhima, shooting his arrows at those elephants, looked resplendent like the risen sun, striking everything in the world with his rays.  Those elephants, afflicted with the shafts of Bhima, became covered with blood and looked beautiful like masses of clouds in the welkin penetrated with the rays of the sun.  Then Duryodhana, excited with wrath, pierced with the sharp shafts that son of the Wind-god who was causing such a slaughter among his elephants.  Then Bhima, with eyes red in wrath, desirous of despatching the king to Yama’s abode, pierced him speedily with many sharp shafts.  Then Duryodhana, mangled all over with arrows and excited with rage, pierced Bhima, the son of Pandu, with many shafts endued with the effulgence of solar rays, smiling the while.  Then the son of Pandu, with a couple of broad-headed arrows, quickly cut off Duryodhana’s bow as also his standard, bearing the device of a jewelled elephant, decked with diverse gems.  Beholding Duryodhana thus afflicted, O sire, by Bhima, the ruler of the Angas on his elephant came there for afflicting the son of Pandu.  Thereupon, Bhimasena deeply pierced with a long arrow that prince of elephants advancing with loud roars, between its two frontal globes.  That arrow, penetrating through its body, sank deep in the earth.  And at this the elephants fell down like a hill riven by the thunder.  While the elephant was falling down, the Mleccha king also was falling down it.  But Vrikodara, endued with great activity, cut off his head with a broad-headed arrow before his antagonist actually fell down.  When the heroic ruler of the Angas fell, his divisions fled away.  Steeds and elephants and car-warriors struck with panic, crushed the foot-soldiers as they fled.

“When those troops, thus broken, fled away in all directions, the ruler of the Pragjyotishas then advanced against Bhima, upon his elephant.[50] With its two (fore) legs and trunk contracted, filled with rage, and with eyes rolling, that elephant seemed to consume the son of Pandu (like a blazing fire).  And it pounded Vrikodara’s car with the steed yoked thereto into dust.  Then Bhima ran forward and got under the elephant’s body, for he knew the science called Anjalikabedha.  Indeed, the son of Pandu fled not.  Getting under the elephant’s body, he began to strike it frequently with his bare arms.  And he smote that invincible elephant which was bent upon slaying him.  Thereupon, the latter began to quickly turn round like a potter’s wheel.  Endued with the might of ten thousand elephants, the blessed Vrikodara, having struck that elephant thus, came out from under Supratika’s