कर्ण पर्व — विन्द र अनुविन्दको वध

Sanjaya said Then the mighty bowman, the heroic Karna, killed the troops of the Pandavas in battle with the straight arrows.

O king, the mighty car-warriors, namely the Pandavas, had most wrathfully smitten the soldiers of your son in the same way in the very presence of Karna.

So also Karna, O monarch, began to smite the army belonging to the Pandavas in the field of battle with the arrows, that were bright like the rays of the sun and excellently polished by the black-smith.

O descendant of the Bharata race, there (in the field of battle) the elephants highly afflicted by Karna with his straight arrows, roared most loudly, became weakened and senseless and ran away towards the ten points of the horizon.

O father, while that immense force was being killed by the son of Suta, Nakula proceeded against that mighty car-warrior, the son of the Suta with great rapidity.

Then Bhimasena checked the progress of Drona's son, who was achieving the most arduous tasks and Satyaki, that of the two Kaikeya princes, Vindu and Anuvindu.

The lord of the earth, Chitrasena, rushed towards Srutakarman, who was advancing against him; so also Prativindhya towards Chitra, who carried a standard of diverse colours and a beautiful bow.

Duryodhana, too, proceeded against the king Yudhishthira the son of Dhrama, while Dhananjaya rushed against the wrathful Samsaptakas.

While that whole host of the foretnost heroes was being thus slain, Dhrishtadyumna rushed against Kripa; and that undecayable Shikhandin proceeded against Kritavarman.

O mighty monarch, so again, Shrutakirti closed with Shalya; and that son of Madri, Shahadeva of immense prowess, closed with your son, Dussashana.

In that great battle, the two Kaikeya princes covered Satyaki with a shower of arrows. Satyaki on the other hand covered the two Kaikeya princes (with a shower of brilliant arrows, O descendant of the Bharata race).

Those two heroic brothers deeply pierced this warrior (Satyaki) in the chest, even as two elephant strike another hostile elephant with their tusks in a dense forest.

O monarch, these two heroic brothers whose vital parts were deeply struck with the arrows, pierced Satyaki, who always performed appropriate deeds with their shafts,

O powerful monarch, Satyaki on the other hand, having smiled and shrouded all the points of the horizon with a shower of arrows, closed with the two brothers, O descendant of the Bharata race.

Thereupon those two brothers, whose progress was checked by the shower of arrows of Sini's grandson, indeed, covered the car of Sini's grandson with lots of shafts.

Having severed the most beautiful bows of those two brothers, then the highly celebrated Shauri restrained the progress of them both in the battle with a shower of sharp arrows.

Then having grasped two other beautiful bows and most effective shafts, they two, too, shrounded Satyaki (with the arrows) and roved about in the field with immense activity and expertness.

Those mighty arrows, shot by the two brothers, adorned with the feathers of the Kanka and the peacock and ornamented with gold, fell down (upon the foes), after having illumined all the points of the horizon.

O monarch, there was a gloom in that formidable battle owing to the shower of arrows shot by both the parties. Then those great car-warriors severed each other's bows.

Thereupon, O mighty monarch, wrathful Satvata, most invincible in the field, having taken up another bow and stretched its string properly, severed the head of Anuvinda with an arrow, sharp like the razor.

O monarch, that mighty head, adorned with ear-rings, fell like the head of Shambara, slain in that dreadful battle (of old). This, having fallen upon the earth most rapidly, greatly aggrieved all the Kaikayas.

Having seen that hero slain, his brother, that mighty car-warrior (Vinda), after having stretched out the string of another bow, restrained the course of Shini's grandson.

Having pierced Satyaki with sixty shafts, all sharpened on stone and adorned with the feathers of gold, he roared most loudly and said-wait, wait.

The mighty car-warrior of the Kaikeya troops then pierced Satyaki in his arms and chest most rapidly with several thousands of arrows.

O king, Satyaki, of true prowess, being thus wounded with the arrows in all his limbs, shone in the field of battle like a Kinshuka with flowers.

In the battle, Satyaki, having been pierced by the lofty-minded Kaikeya, smilingly pierced back the Kaikeya chief with twenty-five shafts.

Thereupon those two best of car-warriors, having broken down each other's beautiful bows and also slain each other's drivers and horses.

Both of them, having taken up shields, as if adorned with hundred moons and grasped the best of swords and possessed as they were with the handsome arms, looked resplendent in that great field of battie.

Like the most powerful ones, Jambha and Shakra, in the battle between the celestials and the Asuras. Thereupon both the warriors roved about in that dreadful field of battle in circles and speedily approached each other, engaged in combating, in the battle.

Thus the two, again, made the best of their efforts in slaying each other. Then Satvata severed the shield of the Kaikeya chief into two pieces. So also this Vinda severed the shield of Satyaki into two pieces.

The Kaikeya chief, indeed, having thus broken into pieces the shield, that was decked with hundred of stars, roved in circles in the field, sometimes advancing and sometimes receding back.

Thereupon the grandson of Shini who was possessed with greatest activity severed him (his head) who having grasped the best of swords, careered in the broad field of battle, by a side-stroke.

O monarch, the Kaikeya prince, that mighty bowman, who was adorned with the shield, being thus cut-off into pieces in that dreadful battle, fell down like a hill broken down by a thunderbolt.

That war-like grandson of Shini, that best of car-warriors, that scorcher of enemies, after having slain him (the Kaikeya chief) in battle, immediately ascended the car of Yudhamanyu.

Thereupon, again, having ascended another car, that furnished with its its due equipment's, Satyaki began to destroy the immense army of the Kaikeyas with his was arrows.

That vast force of the Kaikeyas, being slaughtered in battle, left that enemy in the field and ran away in the ten different directions of the horizon.