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Sanjaya said:
Then Duḥśāsana, O king, attacked Śaineya, showering thousands of arrows like a cloud pouring rain.
He struck Satyaki with sixty and then sixteen arrows, yet he stood firm in battle, unshaken like the mountain Mainaka.
The hero, with great intensity, covered Duḥśāsana with arrows, as a spider envelops a mosquito with its web.
Upon seeing Duḥśāsana and the king covered with hundreds of arrows, the Trigartas were urged to attack Yuyudhāna's chariot.
The cruel warriors approached Yuyudhana. Three thousand chariots of the Trigartas, who were skilled in warfare, moved towards him.
The warriors, determined and united, surrounded him with their mighty chariots, resolved to fight to the death.
In the battle, as they strove and released showers of arrows, they destroyed five hundred chief warriors at the forefront of the army.
They fell swiftly, struck down by the mighty arrows of Shini, resembling great trees shattered by a powerful storm.
O lord of men, the earth was covered with chariots and flags broken in many ways, and with horses with golden crests fallen there.
O great king, the scene was like blooming Butea trees, cut by the arrows of Śaineya and drenched in a flood of blood.
Your men, being slaughtered in battle by Yuyudhana, could not find a savior, just like elephants trapped in mud.
Then, out of fear of the king of birds, they all turned back towards Drona's chariot, like great serpents retreating into their pits.
After slaying five hundred warriors with arrows as deadly as venomous snakes, the hero slowly made his way towards Arjuna's chariot.
As he was departing, the best of men, your son Duḥśāsana, swiftly pierced him with nine arrows that had bent joints.
But the great archer pierced him with five sharp arrows, which had golden shafts and eagle feathers, flying straight.
Duhshasana, with a smile on his face, pierced Satyaki three times and then again five times, O great king, descendant of Bharata.
The son of Śini pierced your son with five swift arrows, cut off his bow in battle, and left Arjuna astonished as he went away.
Then, in a fit of rage, Duḥśāsana hurled the deadly spear towards the Vṛṣṇi hero, aiming to kill him as he approached.
Satyaki, with his sharp arrows, shattered the dreadful weapon of your son into a hundred fragments, O king.
Then, your son took another bow and pierced Satyaki with ten arrows, roaring like a lion, O king.
Satyaki, in his anger during the battle, confused your son and struck him in the chest with arrows resembling flames. He then pierced him again with eight sharp, iron-tipped arrows.
Duhshasana attacked Satyaki with twenty arrows, but Satyaki, O great king, retaliated by piercing him in the chest with three swift arrows with bent joints.
Then the great charioteer, in his anger, struck the horses and the charioteer with sharp and jointed arrows.
The supreme master of weapons, with one arrow, cut off the bow; with five, the quiver; and with two arrows, the flag and the chariot's spear. He also cut off both the charioteer at the rear with sharp arrows.
He, having his bow broken, chariot destroyed, horses and charioteer killed, was driven away by the commander of the Trigarta army using his own chariot.
The son of Śini approached him but did not kill him immediately, O descendant of Bharata, as he remembered the words of Bhīmasena.
Bhimasena indeed promised in the assembly that he would kill all your sons in battle, O Bharata.
Thus, Sātyaki, having defeated Duḥśāsana in battle, quickly followed the path taken by Arjuna, O king.
