शतानीक आदि का युद्ध

Sanjaya said O Bharata, your son Chitrasena withstood Satnika, the of Nakula, who consuming your troops with keen arrows. son was

The son of Nakula pierced Chitrasena, with five arrows. He (i.e. Citrasena) also pierced him i.e. in return with ten sharpened arrows.

Once again, in that engagement Chitrasena, ( mighty monarch, pierced Satanika in the chest with nine keen darts.

The son of Nakula, (also), with straight arrows cut-off his armour from his body and this feat seemed marvellous.

His armour being cut-off, your son O monarch, O lord of kings, looked as beautiful as a snake with its slough cast off in proper time.

The, O great king, the son of Nakula, cutoff, with sharpened arrows, the standard and the bow of that one i.e., Chitrasena who was exerting his utmost in that engagement.

That mighty car-warrior, deprived of his car and coat of mail and his bow cut-off, took up another very strong bow capable of piercing every foe.

Then Chitrasena, that great car-warrior among the Bharatas, quickly pierced the son of Nakula, in battle, with straight arrows.

son The highly powerful Satanika, then inflamed with wrath, destroyed the four horses and also the charioteer of Chitrasena O Bharata.

Jumping down from his car, the highlyrenowned Chitrasena, possessed of (great) strength, oppressed the son of Nakula with twenty-five arrows.

When he (i.e. Chitrasena) was achieving this feat, the of Nakula, in that engagement, cut-off, with a cresent-shaped arrow, his shaft furnished with gold.

His bow cut-off and deprived of his car, steeds and charioteer, he (i.e. Chitrasena) quickly mounted on the car of the high-souled son of Hridika.

Then, O great king, Vrishasena, covered that great car-warrior Drupada, who, followed by his army, was advancing against Drona.

Yajnasena also, O lord, pierced in that battle, that mighty car-warrior, the son of Karna, in the arm and the chest with six arrows.

Thereupon inflamed with wrath, Vrishasena soon struck Yajnasena, stationed on his car, in the centre of his chest with numerous arrows.

O great king, those two heroes mangled with shafts and their bodies looking prickly with the darts sticking io them, looked beautiful like a couple of hedgehogs with their quills erect on their bodies, in that encounter.

Covered all over with blood flowing from the wounds caused by straight arrows furnished with golden wings and keen points, those two warriors in that great engagement, looked beautiful.

Like a pair of highly graceful and radiant Kalpa trees or a couple of Kinsuka trees rich with their burden of flowers.

Vrishasena them, o king, having pierced Drupada with nine arrows, pierced him again with seventy and once more with another three shafts.

Then, discharging thousands of arrows in that battle, the son of Karna, O mighty monarch, looked like cloud pouring torrents of rain.

Thereupon, Drupada, excited with wrath, cut-off the bow of Vrishasena into fragments by means of a sharpened and well-tempered broad-headed arrow.

He (then) taking up another new and strong bow, plaited with gold and taking out of his quiver a shinning, well-tempered, strong, keen and broad-headed dart.

And adjusting it to the string and aiming at Drupada and drawing (his bow-string) up to the very ear, discharged it, striking terror into (the hearts of all the Somakas.

(That dart) riving his heart penetrated into the earth. The king (Drupada), thus wounded by Vrishasena, with dart, fell into a swoon.

Remembering the duty of (all) charioteers, his driver bore him away. O lord of kings, that great car-warrior among the Panchalas being (thus) defeated.

All the warriors (on your side), on that frightful night, rushed against the army of Drupada having their coats of mail cut to pieces with arrows (of the enemy).

In virtue of the (lustre of the) lamps abandoned (by the combatants) and which were burning all around, the field shone resplendent like the cloud-less firmament studded with planets and stars.

Similarly, O great king, (strewn all over) with the fallen Angadas of the combatants, the field looked beautiful like a (mass of) clouds (enlivened) with flashes of lightning during the rainy season.

Then, seized with the fear of the son of Karna, (the Panchalas troops) ran away in all directions as the Danavas agitated with the fear of Indra (had fled away) in the battle between the gods and the Asuras.

Crushed in that battle by him (i.e. Vrishasena) the Panchalas together with the Somakas, illuminated by lamps, shone resplendent.

Having, O Bharata, defeated them in battle, the son of Karna, looked like the sun of scorching rays when he reaches the meridian.

Amongst the thousands of kings belonging to your party and that of your enemy, the puissant Vrishasena alone stood (on the field) like the blazing fire.

Having vanquished (innumerable) horses as well as those great car-warriors the Somakas, he (i.e. Vrishasena) hastened to the spot where king Yudhishthira was.

Your son Dushasana stood against that mighty car-warrior, the advancing Prativindhya, consuming his enemies in battle.

O king, the clash between looked as marvellous as that between Mercury and Venus in the cloudless sky.

In (that) battle, Prativindhya, who was achieving frightful feats, was pierced by Dushasana in the forehead with three arrows.

Pierced deeply by that powerful bcwman, that is, your son, Prativindhya, O mighty monarch, looked like a mountain furnished with a peak.

The great car-warrior Prativindhya (also), in (that) battle, having pierced Dushasana with nine arrows, pierced him again with seven.

There, O Bharata, your son performed a difficult feat in as much as he struck down the steeds of Prativindhya with fierce shafts.

(He then), with a broad-headed shaft, O king, struck down the charioteer and the standard and cut-off into minute fragments the car of that bowman.

(And), inflamed with rage (he) cut-off into very small fragments, with straight arrows, the flags, the quivers, the strings and the terraces, O lord, (of Prativindhya,s) car.

Made carless, the virtuous-souled (Prativindhya) stood, bow in hand and fought with your son by discharging many hundreds of shafts.

Your son, then) with (great) nimbleness of hand cut-off his bow with a razor-shaped arrow and then smote that one whose bow was cutoff, with ten darts.

Witnessing that (sad) plight that their brother was in, his brothers, who were great car-warriors, followed by a large army, rushed furiously to that place.

He then mounted the resplendent car of Sutasoma and O great king, taking up a bow, pierced your son.

Thereupon, all your warriors surrounding your son (in order to protect him) and followed by a great force, rushed (against the Pandavas).

Then, at that frightful hour of midnight, there commenced an encounter swelling (the population of) Yama's domains between your (army) and theirs.