sun.  Created by that bull of Bharata’s race, those arrows of golden wings, in hundreds upon hundreds, endued with the effulgence of the yuga fire or the sun, in a moment shrouded the car of Karna.  Thence also issued long darts and battle-axes and discs and cloth-yard shafts in hundreds, all of awful forms, at which hostile warriors all around began to be deprived of life.  The head of some hostile warrior, severed from his trunk, fell down on the field of battle.  Another, beholding his fallen comrade, fell down dead on the earth, through fear.  The (right) arm of a third, large and massive as the trunk of an elephant, cut off (by Partha), fell down with the sword in grasp.  The left arm of a fourth, cut off with a razor-headed arrow, fell down with the shield in it.  Even thus, Partha, decked with diadem and garlands, wounded and slew all the foremost warriors of Duryodhana’s army with his terrible and death-dealing shafts.  Vaikartana also, in the midst of that battle, shot thousands of arrows.  These, with a loud whizz, fell upon the son of Pandu like torrents of rain poured from the clouds.  Then piercing Bhimasena and Janardana and the diadem-decked Arjuna of superhuman feats, each with three arrows Karna of terrible might uttered a loud awful roar.  Struck with Karna’s shafts, the diadem-decked Arjuna, beholding Bhima and Janardana, became unable to endure (the feats of his antagonist).  Once more, therefore, Partha shot eight and ten arrows.  Piercing the beautiful standard of Karna with one of those arrows, he pierced Shalya with four and Karna himself with three.  With ten other well-shot shafts he then struck the Kaurava warrior Sabhapati, clad in golden mail.  Thereupon that prince, deprived of head and arms and steeds and driver and bow and standard, fell down, wounded and dead, from his foremost of cars, like a Sala tree cut down with an axe.  Once more piercing Karna with three, eight, twelve, four, and ten arrows, Partha slew 400 elephants equipped with many weapons, and 8000 car-warriors, and 1,000 steeds with riders, and 8,000 brave foot-soldiers.  And soon Partha made Karna with his driver and car and steeds and standard invisible with straightly coursing shafts.  Then the Kauravas, thus slaughtered by Dhananjaya, loudly addressed Adhitratha’s son, saying, “Shoot thy arrows and slay the son of Pandu.  Already, he has begun to exterminate the Kurus with his shafts!” Thus urged, Karna, with his best endeavours, incessantly shot many arrows.  Capable of cutting the very vitals, those blood-drinking shafts, well sped by Karna, slew large numbers of the Pandavas and the Pancalas.  Thus those two foremost of all bowmen, those two warriors of great strength that were capable of bearing all foes, those two heroes acquainted with weapons, struck the warriors opposed to them, as also each other, with mighty weapons.  Then Yudhishthira, clad in golden mail, his arrows having been extracted and himself made sound with mantras and drugs by foremost of surgeons well-disposed