04052001 vaizamMpAyana uvAca 'vaizaMpAyana said, 'Beholding the army of the kurus arrayed in order of battle, that descendant of the kuru race, pArtha, addressing virATa's son, said, 'Do thou proceed to the spot where kRpa, the son of Saradwat, is going by the southern side of that car whose flag is seen to bear the device of a golden altar.' 'vaizaMpAyana continued, 'Hearing these words of dhanaMjaya, the son of virATa urged, without a moment's delay, those steeds of silvery hue decked in golden armour. And making them adopt, one after another, every kind of the swifter paces, he urged those fiery steeds resembling the moon in colour. And versed in horse-lore, Uttara, having approached the kuru host, turned back those steeds endued with the speed of the wind. And skilled in guiding vehicles, the prince of matsya, sometimes wheeling about, and sometimes proceeding in circular mazes, and sometimes turning to the left, began to be wilder the kurus. And wheeling round, the intrepid and mighty son of virATa at last approached the car of kRpa, and stood confronting him. Then announcing his own name, arjuna powerfully blew that best of conchs called Devadatta, of loud blare. And blown on the field of battle by the mighty jiSNu, the blare of that conch was heard like the splitting of a mountain. And seeing that the conch did not break into a hundred fragments when blown by arjuna, the kurus with all their warriors began to applaud it highly. And having reached the very heavens, that sound coming back was heard even like the crash of the thunderbolt hurled by Maghavat on the mountain breast.
04052001a etasminn antare tatra mahAvIryaparAkramaH Thereupon that heroic and intrepid and mighty car-warrior,
04052001c AjagAma mahAsattvaH kRpaH zastrabhRtAM varaH Saradwat's son kRpa, endued with strength and prowess,
04052001e arjunamM prati saMyoddhuM yuddhArthI sa mahArathaH waxing wroth at arjuna, and unable to bear that sound and eager for fight, took up his own sea-begotten conch and blew it vehemently. And filling the three worlds with that sound, that foremost of car-warriors took up a large bow and twanged the bow-string powerfully.
04052002a tau rathau sUryasaGMkAzau yotsyamAnau mahAbalau And those mighty car-warriors, equal unto two suns,
04052002c zAradAv iva jImUtau vyarocetAM vyavasthitau standing opposed to each other, shone like two masses of autumnal clouds. Then Saradwat's son quickly pierced pArtha, that slayer of hostile heroes, with ten swift and whetted arrows capable of entering into the very vitals.
04052003a pArtho 'pi vizrutaM loke gANDIvamM paramAyudham And pRthA's son also, on his part, drawing that foremost of weapons, the gANDIva,
04052003c vikRSya cikSepa bahUn nArAcAn marmabhedinaH celebrated over the world, shot innumerable iron-arrows, all capable of penetrating into the very core of the body.
