risen after dispelling the darkness caused by the clouds and covering the welkin.  Each having encouraged his troops, saying, “Do not fly away!” the enemy and thy warriors stood their ground, encircling those two mighty car-warriors like the gods and the asuras standing around Vasava and Samvara.  The two armies then greeted those two best of men with the sounds of drums and other instruments and with leonine roars, at which those two bulls among men looked beautiful like the sun and the moon greeted by roaring clouds gathered around.  Each armed with a formidable bow drawn to a complete circle and looking like a (solar or lunar) corona, those two heroes of great splendour, shooting, in that battle thousands of arrows that constituted their rays, resembled two unbearable suns risen at the end of the yuga for burning the entire universe with its mobile and immobile creatures.  Both invincible, both capable of exterminating foes, each desirous of slaying the other; and each displaying his skill upon the other, those two warriors, Karna and the son of Pandu, closed fearlessly with each other in that dreadful battle, like Indra and the asura Jambha.  Invoking the mightiest of weapons then, those two formidable bowmen began, with their terrible shafts, to slay innumerable men and steeds and elephants as also to strike each other, O king!  Afflicted once more by those two foremost of men, the troops of both the Kurus and the Pandavas, consisting of elephants and foot-soldiers and horsemen and car-warriors, fled away on all sides like other animals in the forest when assailed by the lion.  Then Duryodhana, and the chief of the Bhojas, and Subala’s son, and Kripa, and the son of Sharadvata’s daughter, these five great car-warriors, assailed Dhananjaya and Keshava with shafts capable of producing great pain.  Dhananjaya, however, with his shafts, cut off at the same time the bows, the quivers, the steeds, the elephants, and the cars with their drivers, of those warriors, and mangling every one of them with excellent shafts, pierced the Suta’s son with a dozen arrows.  Then a hundred cars, a hundred elephants, and a number of Saka and Tukhara and Yavana horsemen, accompanied by some of the foremost combatants among the Kambojas, quickly rushed against Arjuna from desire of slaying him.  Speedily cutting off with the shafts and razor-headed arrows in his hands the excellent weapons of his foes, as also their heads, and steeds, and elephants, and cars, Dhananjaya felled his contending enemies on the field.  Then in the welkin blasts of celestial trumpets were blown by the excellent gods.  These were mingled with the praises of Arjuna.  Blown by gentle breezes, excellent floral showers, fragrant and auspicious, fell (upon Arjuna’s head).  Beholding that incident, which was witnessed by gods and men, all creatures, O king, were filled with wonder.’  Only thy son and the Suta’s son who were both of the same opinion, felt neither pain nor wonder.  Then Drona’s son, catching hold of Duryodhana’s