गोहरण पर्व — गोहरण में अर्जुन का युद्ध

Vaishampayana said Then Duryodhana, Karna, Dushasana, Vivinshati, the mighty car-warrior Kripa, Drona, with his son, holding out their strong and powerful bows, rushed with anger towards Dhananjaya with a view to kill him.

O great king, then on his car effulgent like the rays of the sun, the standard of which was struck down, Arjuna, having the emblem of a monkey on his car, encountered them.

Then covering Dhananjaya with highly powerful weapons, Kripa, Karna, Drona, the foremost of car-warriors, showered a downpour of shafts, like clouds, on him, and struck him.

Waiting at a distance they speedily covered him in battle with numberless arrows crowned with feathers.

He being thus covered with celestials weapons, not even a space measuring two fingers was seen on him.

Then smiling, the mighty car-warrior Bibhatsu set the Aindra weapon, effulgent like the sun, on his Gandiva bow.

Like the sun covering (the earth) with rays, the powerful son of Kunti, decked with a diadem, remained in the battle-field covering all with arrows.

As lightning in the clouds, as fire in the rock, so the Gandiva shone like the rain-bow.

Gandiva bow had covered all the ten directions in number, by shooting volley of arrows as the lightening glows in sky while raining and it illumines all directions including the earth from all sides. O Barata! all soldiers including elephant riders and car riders were loosing their conscious.

They all were stunned (inert and dumb) with no conscious at all. All soldiers discouraged to carry on fight and showed their back to the battle-field.

O the best in Bharata dynasty, ) Janamejaya! thus the war-craft/strategy of the whole army shattered. The soldiers began departing under sheer despair wherever they found the way to escape and defend their life.