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.s6.326.1
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.s6.326.1
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Dhṛṣṭadyumna. Drona slew Kṣatradharman (Dhṛṣṭadyumna's son), and caused Cekitāna to be carried away by his steeds. Drupada (censuring Duryodhana) (placing the Pārthas at his head) & Drona (then 85 years of age, with white locks, but behaving like a youth of 16) (VII, 125). Yudhiṣṭhira was aoxious at not having obtained any intelligence of Arjuna and Sātyaki, and thought of sending Bhīma after Sātyaki, asking him to send him a message by a leonine roar (VII, 126). Bhīma requested Dhṛṣṭadyumna to protect Yudhiṣṭhira, and prepared to set out (description) after Sātyaki and Arjuna; the fierce blasts of Pāñcajanya were heard, filling Yudhiṣṭhira with fear. Bhīma (with his charioteer Viçoka) broke through the head of the Kuru array; the Pāñcālas and Somakas followed him behind; the brothers Duḥçala, etc. (νν), (with celestial weapons) he passed, and rushed against Drona's division; Drona & Bhīmasena; Bhīma's mace pressed Drona's chariot down into the earth; Drona, who had previously alighted, was saved; Bhīma slew eleven sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra: Kuṇḍabhedin, etc. (ξξ); Dhṛtarāṣṭra's sons and the soldiers fled away. Bhīmasena then passed towards the division of Drona (VII, 127). Bhīma & Drona; Bhīma passing through the Bhoja, etc. (οο), division and beholding Sātyaki, proceeded with great speed and sighted Arjuna, to whom he made his presence known by a roar; Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa uttered loud roars in return;