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MARRIAGES OF SĀMBA AND PRADYUMNA 231 warrior-caste. Sahadeva fought with Sakuni, Bhima with Duḥśāsana, Nakula with Ulūka, Yudhisthira with Salya. The sons of Draupadi with soldiers fought very hard with the six, Durmarsaņa, et cetera and Rāma's sons with the remaining kings. Kirīțin (Arjuna) cut down the arrows of the kings, Duryodhana, et cetera, who rained them simultaneously, with arrows, as easily as lotus-stalks. Gāņdivin (Arjuna) slew Duryodhana's charioteer and horses, and destroyed his chariot with arrows, and made his armor fall to the ground. Dhārtarāșțra, uninjured, ashamed, fled quickly like a mere foot-soldier and leaped into Sakuni's chariot like a bird.
Dhanañjaya (Arjuna) put to flight the ten,221 Kāsi, et cetera, with a rain of arrows, like a cloud dispersing elephants with a rain of hail. Šalya cut down Yudhisthira's chariotbanner with an arrow and Yudhisthira cut down Salya's bow and arrow. Šalya strung another bow and put to flight Yudhisthira with heron-feather-arrows, like the rainy season the sun with clouds. Then Kaunteya (Yudhisthira) discharged a spear hard to endure at Salya which caused terror to everyone like lightning out of season. Unhindered by enemy-arrows, it fell quickly and slew Salya, like a thunderbolt a lizard. Many kings fled. Vļkodara (Bhima), angered, recalling the victory in gambling by trickery, slew easily Duryodhana's full brother. Sahadeva, attacked by Gāndhāra with magic weapons and with missiles, shot an arrow, the destroyer of life. Suyodhana (= Duryodhana), who had really abandoned warriorethics, cut down this arrow, which had not yet reached Sakuni, with a sharp arrow. Mādreya (Sahadeva) said to him defiantly: “Duryodhana, cheating on your part is apparent in battle as well as in gambling. Indeed, that is the strength of the weak. I will kill at the same time the two of you, crafty like jackals, fortunately found together. Do not separate."
With these words, Sahadeva covered Suyodhana with sharp
221 311. Why 10? This should be 11. Twelve are named above as his attackers and only Duryodhana has fled.
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