Ghatotkacha fights Ashvatthama on black iron eight wheeled chariot bear skins, drawn by buffalo, a giant vulture sits on flagpole tied up with entrails. - Dutt. chp. 156
Fighting Ghatotkacha is like fighting a mountain waterfall launching spears, lances, swords clubs showering stones upon you. - Dutt. chp. 156
Warriors hold lamps to fight in darkness and dusk. - Dutt. chp. 163
Black night bloody weapons blazing luster like lightning flashes. Warriors flames like lotuses conflagration of forest with trees warriors on horse and standards with lamps. - Dutt. 163
Duryodhana slices Bhima’s dart into fragments with an arrow. - Dutt. chp. 166
Ghatotkacha defeats cannibal war lords Alambusa & Alayudha. - Dutt. chp. 176, 179
Karna kills Ghatotkacha with divine weapon shakti (lightning spear)
After Ghatotkacha falls a cloud of fire with lightning and tornado falling spears, clubs, axes, spears, stones and darts crushing chariots warriors. - Dutt. chp. 180
Cannibals warriors under Ghatotkacha hunt Duryodhana’s warriors at night
Ghatotkacha was born from Bhima when the Pandavas were on the run, in hiding and believed to have perished in a house fire. The jungle love story of Bhima and Hidimbaa is told in Hidimba parva -
