Karna had to run and climb up into Duryo- dhana's chariot. Sanjaya here
tells Dhrita- rashtra to whom he was relating the incident: "The greatest adepts in
archery are Krishna, Partha and Satyaki. There is not a fourth to match them!"
Arjuna broke through the Kaurava opposi- tion and reached I Jayadratha.
Inflamed by the thought of the slaughter of Abhimanyu, and all the great wrongs inflicted
by the Kauravas, Arjuna fought with fury.
Savyasachin as he was, he discharged shafts from the Gandiva, now using
one hand and now the other, and struck terror and confusion among his enemies, who felt as
if Death had come to the battlefield with wide-open jaws.
It is only the poet of the Mahabharata that can describe the combat
that raged between Arjuna and Aswatthama and the other great warriors that protected the
king of Sindhu. They fought fiercely but were all defeated and could not prevent Arjuna
from reaching Jayadratha.
The attack on Jayadratha began and the battle raged long. Both sides
were constantly looking westwards, for the day was nearing its end. The Saindhava was no
mean foe, and taxed to the full, Arjuna's strength and skill were hard put to it.
