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.s4.251.6

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both resorted to their power of illusion (vv); Ghaṭotkaca slew Alambusha and threw his head upon Duryodhana's chariot, promising that he should also see the slaughter of Karṇa and then his own. Ghaṭotkaca & Karṇa (VII, 174). Requested by Dhṛtarāshṭra, Sañjaya described Ghaṭotkaca's person, armour, weapons, and chariot; then the encounter between Karṇa & Ghaṭotkaca, who employed Rā.-illusion, and even destroyed the celestial weapon of Karṇa; a Vāyavya weapon was employed by Karṇa to destroy clouds; Ghaṭotkaca was once seen on a chariot, created by illusion, yoked with a number of asses, looking like elephants, and having the faces of Piśācas; Ghaṭotkaca employed an aśani of Rudra's workmanship, furnished with eight wheels; there appeared many Rā., Pṛ., and Yātudhānas, etc. (VII, 175). Meanwhile, the Rā. Alāyudha, with many thousands of Rā., came to Duryodhana, and said that he wished to avenge his kinsmen Baka and Kirmīra, and his friend Hiḍimbā, and the marriage of Hiḍimbā, by slaying all the sons of Kuntī, especially Bhīma, with Kṛshṇa, Ghaṭotkaca, etc. Duryodhana urged him to slay Bhīma. Alāyudha's chariot, steeds, weapons, etc., were pretty much as those of Ghaṭotkaca's (description) (VII, 176). The Kurus with Duryodhana welcomed Alāyudha, having been (with Droṇa, etc. (φφ)), very anxious about Karṇa, who was engaged with Ghaṭotkaca. Alāyudha & Ghaṭotkaca (abandoning Karṇa); Bhīma (disregarding the advancing Karṇa) & Alāyudha (abandoning Ghaṭotkaca) + all the other Rā.