towards him, quickly came to that spot for witnessing (the encounter between Arjuna and Karna).  Beholding king Yudhishthira the just arrived there like the resplendent full Moon freed from the jaws of Rahu and risen in the firmament, all creatures became filled with delight.  Beholding those two foremost of warriors, those two first of heroes and slayers of foes, viz., Karna and Partha, engaged in fight, the spectators, both celestial and terrestrial, restraining the animals they rode or that were yoked unto their vehicles, stood motionless.  As the two heroes, O king, struck each other with many foremost of arrows, O king, the sounds caused by the bows, bow-strings, and palms, of both Dhananjaya and Adhiratha’s son, became tremendous and their well-sped arrows also caused a deafening whizz.  Then the bow-string of the son of Pandu, stretched with force, broke with a loud noise.  During the interval thus offered, the Suta’s son pierced Partha with a hundred small arrows, keen and steeped in oil, winged with the feathers of birds, and resembling snakes freed from their sloughs.  He then quickly pierced Vasudeva with sixty shafts, and then Phalguna again with eight.  Surya’s son then pierced Bhima with thousands upon thousands of mighty arrows.  Having pierced Krishna and Partha’s standard, Karna felled many amongst the Somakas that followed Partha.  These, however, in return shrouded Karna with showers of straight shafts like masses of clouds shrouding the sun in the welkin.  Accomplished in the use of weapons, the Suta’s son, stupefying those advancing warriors with his shafts and baffling all the weapons shot by them, destroyed their cars and steeds and elephants.  And the Suta’s son, O king, also afflicted with his arrows many foremost of warriors among them.  Their bodies pierced with Karna’s shafts, they fell down on the ground, deprived of life and making a loud noise as they fell.  Indeed, those mighty combatants, afflicted by Karna of terrible strength, perished like a pack of dogs afflicted by an angry lion.  And once more many foremost of combatants among the Pancalas and many such (among the Kauravas) fell down after this, slain by Karna and Dhananjaya.  Deprived of life by the mighty Karna with well-aimed arrows shot with great force, many fell down, purging the contents of their stomachs.  Then thy troops, regarding the victory to be already theirs, clapped furiously and uttered loud leonine roars.  Indeed, in that dreadful encounter, all of them regarded the two Krishnas to have been brought by Karna under his power.  Then quickly bending his bow-string and baffling all those shafts of Adhiratha’s son, Partha, filled with rage in consequence of his limbs having been mangled with Karna’s arrows, assailed the Kauravas.  Rubbing his bow-string, he clapped his palms and suddenly caused a darkness there with the showers of shafts he shot.  The diadem-decked Arjuna pierced Karna and Shalya and all the Kurus with those arrows.  The welkin having been darkened by means of that mighty