men, those two foremost of car-warriors, stationed on their cars, each armed with his formidable bow, each equipped with arrows and darts, and each owning a lofty standard.  Both were clad in mail, both had scimitars tied to their belts, both had white steeds, and both were adorned with excellent conchs.  One had Krishna for driver on his car, and the other had Shalya.  Both of them were great car-warriors and both looked alike.  Both possessed of leonine necks and long arms, the eyes of both were red, and both were adorned with garlands of gold.  Both were armed with bows that seemed to flash like lightning, and both were adorned with wealth of weapons.  Both had yak-tails for being fanned therewith, and both were decked with white umbrellas held over them.  Both had excellent quivers and both looked exceedingly handsome.  The limbs of both were smeared with red sandal-paste and both looked like infuriated bulls.  Both were broad-necked like the lion, both were broad-chested, and both endued with great strength.  Challenging each other, O king, each desired to slay the other.  And they rushed against each other like two mighty bulls in a cow-pen.  They were like a couple of infuriated elephants or of angry mountains or of infant snakes of virulent poison or of all-destroying Yamas.  Enraged with each other like Indra and Vritra, they looked like the sun and the moon in splendour.  Filled with wrath, they resembled two mighty planets risen for the destruction of the world at the end of the Yuga.  Both of them born of celestial fathers, and both resembling gods in beauty, they were of godlike energy.  Indeed, they looked like the sun and the moon come of their own accord on the field of battle.  Both of them endued with great might, both filled with pride in battle, they were armed with diverse weapons.  Beholding those two tigers among men, those two heroes endued with the impetuosity of tigers, thy troops, O monarch, were filled with great joy.  Seeing those two tigers amongst men, viz., Karna and Dhananjaya, engaged in battle, a doubt entered the hearts of all as to which of them would be victorious.  Both armed with superior weapons, and both well-practised in battle, both made the welkin resound with the slaps on their armpits.  Both possessed of great celebrity in consequence of prowess and might, they resembled the Asura Samvara and the chief of the celestials in respect of their skill in battle.  Both equal to Kartavirya or Dasaratha’s son in battle, both resembled Vishnu himself in energy or Bhava himself in fight.  Both had white steeds, O king, and both were borne on foremost of cars.  Both of them, again, had foremost of drivers in that great battle.  Beholding, O monarch, those two great car-warriors looking resplendent on their cars, the bands of Siddhas and Charanas that came there became filled with wonder.  The Dhartarashtras then, O bull of Bharata’s race, with their troops, encompassed the high-souled Karna, that ornament of battle, without losing any