Other huge elephants were seen striking against one another and shedding blood from various limbs like mountains with rillets running down their breasts.  Steeds of the foremost breed, divested of breast-plates and their ornaments of silver and brass and gold, destitute of trappings and bridle-bits and yak-tails and saddle-cloths, with quivers fallen off from their backs, and with their heroic riders,—­ornaments of battle,—­slain, were seen wandering here and there on the field.  Pierced and cut with lances and scimitars and swords, O Bharata, we beheld many a horseman adorned with armour and head-gear, slain or in course of being slain or trembling with fear, and deprived, O Bharata, of diverse limbs.  Cars also, decked with gold, and unto which were yoked steeds of great fleetness, were seen by us dragged with exceeding speed hither and thither, their riders having been slain.  Some of these had their axles and poles broken, and some, O Bharata, had their wheels broken; and some were without banners and standards, and some were divested of their shafts.  Many car-warriors also were seen there, by us, O monarch, wandering all around, deprived of their cars and scorched with the shafts of the Suta’s son.  And some destitute of weapons and some with weapons still in their arms were seen lying lifeless on the field in large numbers.  And many elephants also were seen by us, wandering in all directions, studded with clusters of stars, adorned with rows of beautiful bells, and decked with variegated banners of diverse hues.  Heads and arms and chests and other limbs, cut off with shafts sped from Karna’s bow, were beheld by us lying around.  A great and fierce calamity overtook the warriors (of the Pandava army) as they fought with whetted arrows, and mangled as they were with the shafts of Karna.  The Srinjayas, slaughtered in that battle by the Suta’s son, blindly proceeded against the latter’s self like insects rushing upon a blazing fire.  Indeed, as that mighty car-warrior was engaged in scorching the Pandava divisions, the kshatriyas avoided him, regarding him to be the blazing Yuga fire.  Those heroic and mighty car-warriors of the Pancala that survived the slaughter fled away.  The brave Karna, however, pursued those broken and retreating warriors from behind, shooting his shafts at them.  Endued with great energy, he pursued those combatants divested of armour and destitute of standards.  Indeed, the Suta’s son, possessed of great might, continued to scorch them with his shafts, like the dispeller of darkness scorching all creatures when he attains to the meridian.’”

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“Sanjaya said, ’Against Yuyutsu who was employed in routing the vast army of thy son, Uluka proceeded with speed saying “Wait, Wait.”  Then Yuyutsu, O king, with a winged arrow of keen edge struck Uluka with great force, like (Indra himself striking ) a mountain with the thunderbolt.  Filled with rage at this, Uluka, in that battle, cut off thy son’s bow with a razor-headed arrow and struck