जयद्रथ र पाण्डवहरूको युद्ध

Sanjaya said You ask me, O mighty monarch, to describe the prowess of the ruler of Sindhus. I shall describe all that in detail. Hear how he fought with the sons of Pandu.

Excellent steeds of the Sindhu breed obedient to the behests of the charioteer and fleet as the wind itself, carried him to the field of battle.

He rode a chariot duly furnished with the implements of war and looking like an aerial castle. His mighty standard decked with the device of an argentine boar, appeared highly resplendent.

With white umbrellas, with pernons and with the yak-tails that were used to fan him, with all these emblems of royalty, he appeared beautiful like the moon in the midst of myriad of stars.

His iron-made car-fence embossed with pearls, diamonds and gold, appeared effulgent like the welkin bespangled with the luminaries.

Stretching his mighty bow and shooting numerous shafts, he filled up the Kaurava array there where Arjuna's son had created breaches.

He wounded Satyaki with three arrows, Vrikodara with eight, Dhrishtadyumna with sixty and Virata with ten and Drupada with five sharp arrows and Sikhandin with ten. He pierced the Kekayas with twenty-five, the Draupadeyas with three shafts each. Then piercing Yudhishthira with seventy arrows, he inangled the rest of luis army with a mighty downpour of arrows; and that feat appeared indeed wonderful.

Thereupon, O king, the highly puissant son of Dharma (Yudhishthira), laughing the while, cut-off, with a sharp and well-tempered arrow the bow the ruler of the Sindhus.

But the latter, taking up within the twinkle of an eye another bow, pierced Pritha's son with ten shafts and the others following him, with three shafts cach.

Beholding that light-handedness displayed by Jayadratha, Bhima, with three broad-headed shafts, once more cut-off and felled to the ground the bow, the standard and the umbrella of the former.

Taking up and stringing another bow, that puissant hero (Jayadratha) cut down, O sire, the standard, the bow and the steeds of Bhima.

Thereupon Bhima with his bow burst open, jumped down from his excellent chariot of which the steeds were slain and leapt upor the car of Satyaki like a lion leaping upon the top of a hill.

Ai this, your troops filled with delight, cried out saying “Well dene, Well done' and they applauded that feat achieved by the Sindhu king again and again.

Then all creatures praised that fcat of his which was nothing less than checking the enraged Pandava hosts by means of the force of his weapons.

The track that the son of Subhadra bad marked out for the Pandavas by the numerous slain warriors and elephants, was then blockaded by the king of the Sindhus.

Then the Matsyas, the Panchalas, the Kekayas and the Pandavas, all these heroic warriors exerting their best, tried to follow Abhimanyu, but they could not withstand the ruler of the Sindhus.

Stretching his mighty bow and shooting numerous shafts, he filled up the Kaurava array there where Arjuna's son had created breaches.

Thereupon Bhima with his bow burst open, jumped down from his excellent chariot of which the steeds were slain and leapt upor the car of Satyaki like a lion leaping upon the top of a hill.

At this, your troops filled with delight, cried out saying “Well dene, Well done' and they applauded that feat achieved by the Sindhu king again and again.

Then all creatures praised that fcat of his which was nothing less than checking the enraged Pandava hosts by means of the force of his weapons.

The track that the son of Subhadra bad marked out for the Pandavas by the numerous slain warriors and elephants, was then blockaded by the king of the Sindhus.

Then the Matsyas, the Panchalas, the Kekayas and the Pandavas, all these heroic warriors exerting their best, tried to follow Abhimanyu, but they could not withstand the ruler of the Sindhus.

Every one of your enemy who tried to penetrate through Drona's array was checked by the ruler of the Sindhus in consequence of the boon the latter had obtained from Mahadeva.