[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 9.9.60 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 9.9.60 Mahābhārata 9.9.60 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [9.9.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9.60) tathaiva pāṇḍavāḥ śeṣā dhṛṣṭadyumnapurogamāḥ | abhyadhāvanta tāṃ senāṃ visṛjantaḥ śitāñśarān || 60 || > Smilingly, all thy warriors, filled with rage, speedily encompassed the ruler of the Madras and stood from desire of battle. Then commenced a battle, inspiring the timid with fear, between thy soldiers and the enemy, both of whom made death their goal. That battle between fearless combatants, enhancing the population of Yama's kingdom, resembled, O monarch, that between the gods and the Asuras in days of yore. Then the ape-bannered son of Pandu, O king, having slaughtered the Samsaptakas in battle, rushed against that portion of the Kaurava army. Smiling, all the Pandavas, headed by Dhrishtadyumna, rushed against the same division, shooting showers of keen arrows. Overwhelmed by the Pandavas, the Kaurava host became stupefied. Indeed, those divisions then could not discern the cardinal point from the subsidiary points of the compass. Covered with keen arrows sped by the Pandavas, the Kaurava army, deprived of its foremost warriors, wavered and broke on all sides. Indeed, O Kaurava, that host of thine began to be slaughtered by the mighty car-warriors of the Pandavas. Similarly, the Pandava host, O king, began to be slaughtered in hundreds and thousands in that battle by thy sons on every side with their arrows. While the two armies, exceedingly excited, were thus slaughtering each other, they became much agitated like two streams in the season of rains. > — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - [Previous: 9.9.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9.59) - [Next: 9.9.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9.61) - [Up: 9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9) ## Translations (1) - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.9.10.3.6) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.9.9.64) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.9.10.63) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.9.60) · Pramāṇa