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Those heroes, the Pandavas, blew their sea conches loud. Drums and cow-horns were beat and blown together. Gandharvas with Siddhas and Apsaras gathered to witness and cheer. - Dutt. Mahabharata. Bhishma Vadha. Chapter 43.
Yudhishthira strips his battle armor and pays respects to Drona, Bhishma, Shalya, Kripa. - Dutt. Mhb. chp. 43
Duryodhana, and his brothers Durmukha, Dushala, Dushasana, Durmarshana, Vivingshati, Chitrasena, Vikarna and Purumitra, Jaya, Bhoja, along with Somadatta’s son Bhurishrava rushed shaking their bows that looked like masses of clouds charged with flashes of lightning, firing fast arrows that looked like snakes cover Bhima with a shower of arrows as clouds cover the son. - Dutt. Mhb. BV. chp. 44.
sun covered by dust raised by horses, chariots and infantry clash in an ocean of crocodile arrows, snake bows, tortoise swords and conches. - Dutt. Mhb. BV. chp. 44.
a battle of elephants against elephants, chariots against chariots, cavalry against cavalry and infantry against infantry. shafts of broken cars spikes of chariot yokes. huge elephants with rent temples tusks bloody wounded by swords, lances and arrows. elephants destroying chariots. - Dutt. Mhb. BV. chp. 45-46
Abhimanyu bow revolves like a circle of fire as he drives off Bhishma, Kritavarma, Shalya, Durmukha and Kripa. Abhimanyu cuts down Bhishma’s arrows, bows and standard. Dutt. BV. chp. 47
Shalya spears Uttara with an iron dart and slices off an elephant trunk. Shveta covers Shalya in a net of arrows. -Dutt BV chp. 47
Shveta fights Bhishma
elephants rampage through a cloud of dust crushing men and chariots. Bhishma stands like a mountain, blazing like a winter sun, spitting arrows from his chariots like golden rays. Dutt. BV chp. 48
Virata’s son Shveta and Bhishma rush chariots like two mad tigers showering each other in arrows. Shveta cuts down Bhishma’s standard. Smiling and licking the corners of his mouth, Shveta cut down Bhishma’s bow into ten parts. - Dutt. BV. chp. 48
Shveta launches a dart effulgent as the rod of death that falls like a meteor from the sky Bhishma cuts the dart down in parts which fall like gold covered in flame.
Bhishma fires showers of arrows at Abhimanyu, Satyaki, Bhima, Dhrishtadyumna, the five Kekaya princes. A fire weapon penetrates Shveta’s armor like a lightning bolt, killing him.
The troops withdrew for the day, thinking at night of the great slaughter made by General Shveta before he fell.
