energy and power, issuing out of Partha’s car, were seen to be displayed in the vicinity of Karna’s vehicle.  The mighty car-warrior Karna baffled all those shafts displayed in his front.  Seeing that weapon thus destroyed, the Vrishni hero, addressing Arjuna, said, “Shoot high weapons, O Partha!  The son of Radha baffles thy shafts.”  With proper mantras, Arjuna then fixed the brahmastra on his string, and shrouding all the points of the compass with arrows, Partha struck Karna (with many) arrows.  Then Karna, with a number of whetted shafts endued with great energy, cut off the string of Arjuna’s bow.  Similarly he cut off the second string, and then the third, and then the fourth, and then the fifth.  The sixth also was cut off by Vrisha, and then the seventh, then the eighth, then the ninth, then the tenth, and then at last the eleventh.  Capable of shooting hundreds upon hundreds of arrows, Karna knew not that Partha had a hundred strings to his bow.  Tying another string to his bow and shooting many arrows, the son of Pandu covered Karna with shafts that resembled snakes of blazing mouths.  So quickly did Arjuna replace each broken string that Karna could not mark when it was broken and when replaced.  The feat seemed to him to be exceedingly wonderful.  The son of Radha baffled with his own weapons those of Savyasaci.  Displaying also his own prowess, he seemed to get the better of Dhananjaya at that time.  Then Krishna, beholding Arjuna afflicted with the weapons of Karna, said these words unto Partha:  “Approaching Karna, strike him with superior weapons.”  Then Dhananjaya, filled with rage, inspiring with mantras another celestial weapons that looked like fire and that resembled the poison of the snake and that was as hard as the essence of adamant, and uniting the Raudra weapon with it, became desirous of shooting it at his foe.  At that time, O king, the earth swallowed up one of wheels of Karna’s car.  Quickly alighting then from his vehicle, he seized his sunken wheel with his two arms and endeavoured to lift it up with a great effort.  Drawn up with force by Karna, the earth, which had swallowed up his wheel, rose up to a height of four fingers’ breadth, with her seven islands and her hills and waters and forests.  Seeing his wheel swallowed, the son of Radha shed tears from wrath, and beholding Arjuna, filled with rage he said these words, “O Partha, O Partha, wait for a moment, that is, till I lift this sunken wheel.  Beholding, O Partha, the left wheel of my car swallowed through accident by the earth, abandon (instead of cherishing) this purpose (of striking and slaying me) that is capable of being harboured by only a coward.  Brave warriors that are observant of the practices of the righteous, never shoot their weapons at persons with dishevelled hair, or at those that have turned their faces from battle, or at a Brahmana, or at him who joins his palms, or at him who yields himself up or beggeth for quarter or at one who has put up his weapon, or at one whose arrows are exhausted,