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- Beholding the troops turning away
- from battle and Dhrishtadyumna exceedingly afflicted, the grandson of Sini quickly urged his car against that of Drona's son. He then afflicted Aswatthaman with eight keen shafts.
- And once more striking that angry warrior with twenty shafts of diverse kinds, he pierced Aswatthaman's driver, and then his four
- steeds with four shafts. With. great deliberations and displaying a wonderful lightness of hand, he cut off
- Aswatthaman's bow and standard, Satyaki then cut into fragments the gold-decked car of this foe
- together with its steeds. And then he deeply pierced Aswatthaman in the chest with thirty arrows in that
- battle. Thus afflicted, O king, (by Satyaki), and shrouded with arrows, the mighty Aswatthaman knew
- not what to do.
- When the preceptor's son had fallen into that plight, thy son, that car-warrior,
- accompanied by Kripa and Karna and others began to cover the Satwata hero with arrows. All of them
- began quickly to pierce Satyaki from every side with keen shafts, Duryodhana pierced him with twenty,
- Saradwat's son, Kripa, with three. And Kritavarman pierced him with ten, and Karna with fifty. And
- Duhsasana pierced him with a hundred arrows, and Vrishasena with seven. Satyaki, however, O king,
- soon made all those great car-warriors fly away from the field, deprived of their cars. Meanwhile,
- Aswatthaman, O bull of Bharata's race, recovering consciousness, and sighing repeatedly in sorrow,
- began to think of what he should do. Riding then upon another car, that scorcher of foes, viz., the son of
- Drona, began to resist Satyaki, shooting hundreds of arrows.
- Drona Parva Section CCI
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