[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.575.9 # An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.575.9 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.575.9 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.575.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575.9) The Kauravas urged Karṇa to slay \*A.\* Yudhiṣṭhira appeared in order to witness the encounter. \*A.\*'s bowstring burst; Karṇa pierced \*A.\* (aδ). Karṇa employed five snakes as arrows; they were cut off by \*A.\*, who slew 2,000 Kurus. The Kurus fled, leaving Karṇa to fight alone with \*A.\* (VIII, 89). The snake Açvasena entered into Karṇa's quiver in the form of an arrow. Karṇa and \*A.\* were fanned and sprinkled with fragrant sandal-water by many Aps., staying in the welkin, and Çakra and Sūrya gently brushed their faces with their hands. Karṇa aimed that arrow which he had long kept for \*A.\*'s destruction. Omens appeared; Karṇa did not know that Açvasena had entered his arrow. Kṛṣṇa with his feet pressed \*A.\*'s car about a cubit into the earth and the snake-arrow only broke his diadem (made by Svayambhū for Indra \> \*A.\*); incapable of being crushed by Rudra, etc. (ai). Karṇa would not shoot the same weapon again. Açvasena then of his own accord came towards \*A.\* in the shape of an arrow; Kṛṣṇa informed \*A.\*; \*A.\* cut off the snake, and Kṛṣṇa raised the chariot from the earth. Once, when Karṇa was stupefied, \*A.\* did not wish to slay him, but he was taught by Kṛṣṇa never to spare an enemy. Karṇa invoked the Brāhma weapon and \*A.\* the Aindra weapon, which was neutralized by Karṇa, urged by Kṛṣṇa to shoot "high weapons," \*A.\* shot the Brāhma weapon. Karṇa cut off eleven bowstrings of \*A.\*'s another, not knowing that \*A.\* had 100 strings; - [Previous: c5.s1.575.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575.8) - [Next: c5.s1.575.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575.10) - [Up: c5.s1.575](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.575.9) · Pramāṇa