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.s4.250.3
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.s4.250.3
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Beholding the sons of Drupada and Kuntibhoja and Rā. in thousands slain by Aṣvatthāman, Yudhishṭhira, etc. (ξ), set their hearts firmly on battle. Somadatta & Yuyudhāna + Bhīma, who made Somadatta insensible, and slew Pratīpa's son Bāhlīka (the father of Somadatta), ten sons of Dhṛtarāshṭra; Nāgadatta, etc. (ο), & Bhīma, who slew them. Vṛkaratha (the brother of Karṇa) & Bhīma, who slew him, and thereupon seven brothers of Ṣakuni, and pressed Ṣatacandra down into the earth. Ṣakuni's five brothers, Gavākṣa, etc. (π) & Bhīma, who slew them. Yudhishṭhira & Droṇa; Yudhishṭhira began to slay the Ambaṣṭhas (ρ); Droṇa and Yudhishṭhira employed the Vāyavya weapon; then Droṇa employed the Vāruṇa, Yāmya, Āgneya, Tvāṣṭra, and Sāvitra, which were all baffled by Yudhishṭhira; then Droṇa invoked the Aindra and the Prājāpatya weapons, and Yudhishṭhira the Mahendra; then both employed the Brāhma weapon. Droṇa (with the Vāyavya weapon, abandoning Yudhishṭhira) & Drupada's division, who fled, but were rallied by Arjuna and Bhīma, who attacked Droṇa from two sides, and were followed by the Kaikayas, etc. (σ). The Kurus fled; Droṇa and Duryodhana in vain tried to rally them (VII, 157). Duryodhana urged Karṇa to defeat the Pāṇḍavas (Pāñcālas, etc. (τ)); Karṇa vowed to slay Arjuna, etc. (υ), and was ridiculed by Kṛpa (φ), who said that Dhṛṣṭadyumna, etc. (χ), were all fighting for the Pāṇḍavas;