"The Pandavas, hearing the terrible wail of the beaten host, reverentially saluted Drona and ascended their chariots. Then Arjuna hastily bidding Yudhish-thira not to engage in the fight, rushed forward, appointing the sons of Madri (Nakula and Sahadeva) the protectors of his chariot wheels, while Bhima-sena, ever fighting in the van, with mace in hand, ran ahead. The sinless Arjuna, thus accompanied by his brothers, searing the shouts of the enemy, advanced towards them filling the whole region with the sound of his chariot-wheels. And like a Makara entering the sea, the mighty-armed Bhima, resembling a second Yama with mace in hand, entered the Panchala ranks,—fiercely roaring like the ocean in a tempest. And Bhima, mace in hand, first rushed towards the array of elephants in the hostile force, while Arjuna, proficient in war, assailed that force (an some other point) by the prowess of his arm. And Bhima, like the great destroyer himself, began to slay those elephants with his mace. Those huge animals like unto mountains, struck with Bhima's mace, had their heads broken into pieces, and covered with streams of blood, began to full upon the ground like cliffs loosened by a thunder. And the Pandava prostrated on the ground elephants and horses and cars by thousands and slew much infantry and many charioteers. Indeed, as a herdsman in the woods driveth before him with his staff countless cattle with ease, so did Vrikodara drive before him the chariots and elephants of the hostile force.
"Meanwhile Falguna, impelled by the desire of doing good unto Bharadwaja, assailed the son of Prishata with a shower of arrows and felled him from the elephant on which he was seated. And, O monarch, Arjuna, like unto the terrible fire that consumeth at the end of the Yuga, began to prostrate on the ground horses and cars and elephants by thousands. The Panchalas and the Srinjayas, on the other hand, thus assailed by the Pandava, met him with a perfect shower of weapons of various kinds. And they sent up a loud shout and fought desperately with Arjuna. The battle became furious and terrible to behold. Hearing the enemy's shout, the son of Indra was filled wish wrath. Assailing the
