shout.  The son of Pandu then uttering a loud shout cut off the two arms of Danda.  Cut off by means of razor-headed shafts, those two arms, smeared with sandal-paste, adorned with angadas, and with lances in grasp, as they fell from the elephant’s back at the same instant of time, looked resplendent like a couple of large snakes of great beauty falling down from a mountain summit.  Cut off with a crescent-shaped arrow by the diadem-decked (Partha), the head also of Danda fell down on the Earth from the elephant’s back, and covered with blood it looked resplendent as it lay like the sun dropped from the Asta mountain towards the western quarter.  Then Partha pierced with many excellent arrows bright as the rays of the sun that elephant of his foe, resembling a mass of white clouds whereupon it fell down with a noise like a Himalayan summit riven with thunder.  Then other huge elephants capable of winning victory and resembling the two already slain, were cut off by Savyasaci, in that battle, even as the two (belonging to Danda and Dandadhara) had been cut off.  At this the vast hostile force broke.  Then elephants and cars and steeds and men, in dense throngs, clashed against one another and fell down on the field.  Tottering, they violently struck one another and fell down deprived of life.  Then his soldiers, encompassing Arjuna like the celestials encompassing Purandara, began to say, “O hero, that foe of whom we had been frightened like creatures at the sight of Death himself, hath by good luck been slain by thee.  If thou hadst not protected from that fear those people that were so deeply afflicted by mighty foes, then by this time our foes would have felt that delight which we now feel at their death, O slayer of enemies.”  Hearing these and other words uttered by friends and allies, Arjuna, with a cheerful heart, worshipped those men, each according to his deserts, and proceeded once more against the samsaptakas.’”

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“Sanjaya said, ’Wheeling round, like the planet Mercury in the curvature of its orbit, Jishnu (Arjuna) once more slew large number of the samsaptakas.  Afflicted with the shafts of Partha, O king, men, steeds, and elephants, O Bharata, wavered and wondered and lost colour and fell down and died.  Many foremost of animals tied to yokes and drivers and standards, and bows, and shafts and hands and weapons in grasp, and arms, and heads, of heroic foes fighting with him, the son of Pandu cut off in that battle, with arrows, some of which were broad-headed, some equipped with heads like razors, some crescent-shaped, and some furnished with heads like the calf’s tooth.  Like bulls fighting with a bull for the sake of a cow in season, brave warriors by hundreds and thousands closed upon Arjuna.  The battle that took place between them and him made the hair to stand on end like the encounter between the Daityas and Indra, the wielder of the thunderbolt on the occasion of the conquest of the three worlds.  Then the son of Ugrayudha