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- 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.
- And he pierced Aswatthaman's driver also with twenty arrows whetted on stone and equipped with
- wings of gold, and then his four steeds with four sharp arrows.
- Repeatedly piercing Drona's son, and causing the earth to tremble with his leonine roars. Dhrishtadyumna then
- seemed to be employed in taking the lives of creatures in the world in dreadful battle. Making death itself
- his goal, the mighty son of Prishata, O king, accomplished in weapons and endued with sureness of aim, then rushed against
- Drona's son alone.
- Of immeasurable soul, that foremost of car-warriors, viz., the prince of Panchala,
- poured upon Aswatthaman's head a shower of arrows. Then Drona's son, in that battle, covered the
- angry prince with winged shafts. And once more, he pierced the latter with ten shafts, remembering the
- slaughter of his father. Then cutting off the standard and bow of the Panchala prince with a couple of
- well-shot shafts, equipped with heads like razors. Drona's son began to grind his foe with other arrows.
- In that dreadful battle, Aswatthaman made his antagonist steedless and driverless and carless, and
- covered his followers also with thick showers of shafts.
- Drona Parva Section CCI
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