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Ashwatthama dura

Feb 12th, 2024
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  1. Rushing at him, O bull among men, that foremost of warriors, with great impetuosity, pierced the Panchala prince with five and twenty small arrows. Then Dhrishtadyumna, O King, pierced Drona's son that resembled a blazing fire, with four and sixty shafts.
  2. And he pierced Aswatthaman's driver also with twenty arrows whetted on stone and equipped with
  3. wings of gold, and then his four steeds with four sharp arrows.
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  5. Repeatedly piercing Drona's son, and causing the earth to tremble with his leonine roars. Dhrishtadyumna then
  6. seemed to be employed in taking the lives of creatures in the world in dreadful battle. Making death itself
  7. his goal, the mighty son of Prishata, O king, accomplished in weapons and endued with sureness of aim, then rushed against
  8. Drona's son alone.
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  10. Of immeasurable soul, that foremost of car-warriors, viz., the prince of Panchala,
  11. poured upon Aswatthaman's head a shower of arrows. Then Drona's son, in that battle, covered the
  12. angry prince with winged shafts. And once more, he pierced the latter with ten shafts, remembering the
  13. slaughter of his father. Then cutting off the standard and bow of the Panchala prince with a couple of
  14. well-shot shafts, equipped with heads like razors. Drona's son began to grind his foe with other arrows.
  15. In that dreadful battle, Aswatthaman made his antagonist steedless and driverless and carless, and
  16. covered his followers also with thick showers of shafts.
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  18. Drona Parva Section CCI
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