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he cut off his standard, which was set with gold and resembled a golden palmyra, and then he slew his steeds; at last Arjuna fell down in a swoon, and so did Babhruvāhana; Citrāṅgadā repaired to the battlefield weeping piteously (XIV, 79); she indulged in copious lamentations, lost her senses, and fell down on the earth; regaining consciousness and seeing Ulūpī, she blamed her for having brought about Arjuna's slaughter by Babhruvāhana, and asked her to revive him; "I do not grieve for my slain son, I only grieve for my husband"; otherwise she would sit in prāya and die; the horse she had set free. Regaining consciousness Babhruvāhana lamented piteously, saying that now he had slain his father, he would wander over the earth, covering himself with his father's skin, or with the two halves of his head, as an expiation, or else he would die; he took an oath (touching water) that, if Arjuna was not revived, he would emaciate his own body, sitting on the field of battle; "I shall without doubt have to sink into hell; he who has slain a heroic kṣattriya becomes purified by making a gift of 100 cows; I, who have slain my father, cannot be rescued." Ulūpī thought of the gem that has the virtue of reviving a dead man; the gem, thus thought of, came there; she said that Arjuna had not been vanquished by Babhruvāhana, but Ulūpī had exhibited this illusion for the benefit of Arjuna. As soon as the prince had placed the gem on the breast of Arjuna the latter revived.