Day 14 - Part II
Jayadratha Parva Chapters 1058-1098
“You are armored. Now fight.”
— Duryodhana. Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 908
Drona Parva covers days 11-15, during the time Drona is the general of the Kuru army.
https://crackpot.substack.com/t/bhishma
Sequence
(14) While Arjuna fights Shalya, Ashvatthama, Kripa, Bhurishravas, Vrishasena, Jaydratha, Karna and Shala the Pandavas rush Drona. Various battles take place.
(16) The Kekaya princes kill Kshamadhurti
(18) Satyaki kills Vyaghradatta. The Upapandavas kill Somadatta’s son Shala.
(19-20) Bhima defeats Alambusa, who flees, re-engages battle elsewhere and is killed by Ghatotkacha.
(21-22) Satyaki fights with Drona. Yudhishthira is worried about Arjuna and dispatches Satyaki to aid Arjuna. Satyaki follows Arjuna’s trail of death. Kritavarma fights with Satyaki on the way.
Kritavarma repulsed Satyaki. Satyaki struck Kritavarma in the right arm with a javelin. Satyaki grasped a bow and showered arrows. With a broad-headed arrow, he sliced down the charioteer’s head. When the charioteer was slain, the horses fled at great speed. Kritavarma struggled to control the horses and Satyaki had gone ahead. Kritavarma attacked Bhima next.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1065
Sanjaya said, “This hardship is the result of your transgressions. Your duplicity and favoritism is the cause. Your malice toward the Pandavas is the cause. This destruction is because of your crimes. Now listen to how the battle raged.”
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1067
Sequence
(24)
In every direction there were elephants. Satyaki rained arrows down on them. Their tusks were broken. They were covered in blood. Their temples and frontal lobes were shattered. Their ears, faces and trunks were lopped off. They were without riders and flags. Their armor and bells were fragmented. The giant standards were brought down. The blankets were torn apart. With the riders slain, they roamed in panic. They shrieked and roared, like the thunder of clouds. They were mangled by Satyaki’s iron arrows.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1068
(25)
Jalasandha picked up a sword and a shield made of bull hide and marked with the signs of one hundred moons. He whirled the sword and hurled it at Satyaki. The sword severed Satyaki’s bow. Satyaki picked up another bow as thick as a shala tree. Satyaki used two kshurapa arrows to sever Jalasandha’s arms, with their ornaments and armlets. Those arms were like clubs. They fell down on the ground, like two five-headed serpents falling down from a mountain. With a third kshurapa arrow, Satyaki severed his head, possessing beautiful teeth and a handsome jaw and adorned with earrings. Jalasandha’s elephant was covered with blood. He was hanging upside down from the seat. The elephant fled, uttering hideous shrieks, crushing its own soldiers.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1068
(26)
Satyaki and the Kauravas clash. Satyaki makes Duryodhana retreat.
(27)
Drona and Satyaki clash.
Drona severed Satyaki’s bow with an arrow in the shape of a half-moon. Drona struck his charioteer with a javelin. Satyaki then performed a superhuman deed. He grasped the reins himself and fought with Drona. Satyaki released many arrows at Drona’s golden chariot. He brought Drona’s charioteer down. With Drona’s charioteer slain, the horses began to run away. The radiant chariot whirled in a thousand circles, like the sun.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1070
(28) Satyaki kills Sudarshana, who tries to stop him from reaching Arjuna.
(29)
Satyaki kills Kambojas and Trigartas
(30)
Drona fights with the Panchalas and Dhrishtadyumna
(31)
Satyaki rocks Duhshasana, but spares his life, leaving him for Bhima.
Sanjaya said, “There is no doubt that you are the root of this destruction on earth. You are the cause of this enmity. You are now suffering the fruits of that action. Let me describe to you the raging battle.”
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1087
Sequence
(31) Satyaki finds Arjuna
(32) Duryodhana leads an attack on the Pandavas, attacking Bhima, the Upapandavas, Sahadeva, Nakula, Virata, Dhrishtadyumna and Shikhandi.
(33) Drona kills many Somakas. Drona kills the Kekaya prince Brihatkshatra. Drona kills Dhrishtaketu and Kshatradharma.
(34) Drupada comes to attack Drona.
(35) Yudhishthira dispatches Bhima to help Satyaki and Arjuna. Bhima destroys Drona’s chariot with a club, passing Drona. Bhima encounters a phalanx of Dhritarashtra’s sons. Bhima kills Sushena, Abhaya, Roudrakarma, Durvinolochana, Kundabhedi, Dhirganetra, Roudrakarma before the rest flee.
Bhima hurled a club towards Drona, who leapt down from his chariot. The club uprooted Drona’s horses, charioteer, standard and chariot, like the wind among trees. Dushasana hurled a javelin. Bhima sliced it into two fragments. Then Bhima used three arrows to kill Kundabhedi, Sushena and Dirghanetra.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1079
(36) Bhima and Karna fight. Bhima rocks Karna, destroying his chariot several times. Vrishasena saves Karna once. Karna wins one round in the back and forth, but is finally forced to flee when Arjuna intervenes.
(37) Drona dispatches Duryodhana to protect Jayadratha. Duryodhana fights with Arjuna’s parshinis, Uttamouja and Yudhamanyu.
Sequence
(38) Satyaki kills Alambusa. (A different Alambusa, not the Rakshasa son of Rishyaringa, who has already been killed by Ghatotkacha.)
(39) Satyaki fights off a charging Duhshasana and brothers, who were previously routed by Bhima.
(40) Satyaki and Bhurishravas fight savagely.
They slew each other’s horses and severed each other’s bows. Devoid of their chariots, they clashed with swords. They took up colorful shields made of bull hide. They severed those shields with their swords. When those were severed, they engaged in a bout of wrestling. That attacked each other with arms like iron clubs. Bhurishrava knocked Satyaki down with a blow. Bhurishrava dragged Satyaki, like a lion dragging an elephant. Bhurishrava unsheathed his sword and grasping Satyaki by the hair, struck him in the chest with his foot. Arjuna used an arrow to sever Bhurishrava’s arm which held the sword.
“O’ Arjuna! What will you tell Yudhishthira? ‘I killed Bhurishrava in battle, though he was not fighting with me?’”, Bhurishrava cried.
“Who among the Kurus condemned the slaughter of Abhimanyu, when he was without a weapon, without a chariot and without armor?”, Arjuna answered.
Bhurishrava bent down, touched his head to the ground, and offered his severed arm.
— Bibek Debroy. Mhb. Chapter 1095
(42) The Kauravas rally and attack Arjuna. Arjuna duels Karna, defeats the other Kauravas and kills Jayadratha, fulfilling his pledge. Ashvatthama saves Karna after Arjuna kills his horses and ruins his chariot.