07.136
Core and Pancharatra: Yudhishthira and Bhimasena come to the rescue and repel the attack by Ashwatthama. When Drona comes to his rescue, Arjuna fights him, making the Kaurava army to retreat.
Sanjaya said:
Then Yudhishthira and Bhimasena, the Pandavas, surrounded Ashwatthama, the son of Drona, from all sides, O great king.
Then King Duryodhana, accompanied by Bharadvaja, advanced towards the Pandavas in the battlefield. The battle that followed was terrifying, O great king, and it heightened the fear among the timid.
In his anger, Yudhishthira sent the troops of the Ambashthas, Malavas, Vangas, Shibis, and Trigartas to the realm of death.
Bhima defeated the fierce and arrogant Shurasena Kshatriyas in battle, leaving the earth soaked with blood.
The crowned warrior dispatched the Yaudheyas, Arattas, Kshatriyas, Madras, and other tribes to the realm of death using his sharp arrows in the battle.
The elephants, oppressed by the deeply graceful movements of the arrows, fell to the ground like two-peaked mountains.
The battlefield was a gruesome sight, with the earth appearing to shine as it was covered with severed elephant trunks rolling around, resembling crawling snakes.
The earth was adorned with royal umbrellas, beautifully decorated with gold and colors, resembling the sky filled with celestial bodies like the sun, moon, and planets at the end of an era.
There was a tumultuous sound as they killed, struck in fear, pierced, and cut towards the chariot of Shonashva.
Drona, in his extreme anger, used the wind weapon in battle to scatter them as the unstoppable wind scatters clouds.
The Pāñcālas, struck with fear and being slain by Droṇa, fled while being observed by the noble Bhīmasena and Arjuna.
Then Arjuna and Bhima, with a great chariot division, suddenly turned back and surrounded your army.
Bībhatsu attacked from the right, while Vṛkodara unleashed a great volley of arrows upon Bhāradvāja.
Then the Sṛñjayas, Pāñcālas, and the great charioteers followed the Matsyas along with the Somakas, O great king.
Similarly, the chariot warriors and strikers of your son, accompanied by a large army, advanced towards Drona's chariot.
Then, that army of Bharata, being slaughtered by Arjuna, was once again scattered by the forces of darkness and sleep.
O great king, despite being restrained by Drona and your son, the warriors could not be stopped at that time.
The great army of the Pandavas, pierced by arrows, fled in all directions as the world was enveloped in darkness.
O great king, some kings, having abandoned hundreds of vehicles there, fled in all directions, overcome by fear.
