ePub History Of The First Regiment; Alabama Volunteer Infantry; C. S. A (1904) by Edward Young McMorries in History

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Excerpt: ... and impetuous velocity; and drawing the bow-string to his ear; he deeply pierced the king of the Kurus in his wide chest. Thereupon the gem hanging on his breast on threads of gold; surrounded by those shafts; looked beautiful like the Sun in the firmament surrounded by the planets. Thy son; however; endued with great energy; thus struck by Bhimasena; could not bear it (coolly); like a snake unable to bear the sounds of a man's slap. Excited with wrath and desirous of protecting his army; he then pierced Bhima in return; O king; with many shafts whetted on stone and endued with golden wings. Thus struggling in battle and mangling each other fiercely; those two mighty sons of thine looked like a pair of celestials. "That tiger among men and slayer of hostile heroes; viz.; the son of Subhadra; pierced Chitrasena with many sharp shafts and Purumitra also with seven shafts. And piercing Satyavrata too with seventy shafts; that hero resembling Indra himself in battle; began as it were to dance on the field; and caused us much pain. Chitrasena then pierced him in return with ten shafts; and Satyavrata with nine; and Purumitra with seven. Then the son of Arjuna; thus pierced; while yet covered with blood; cut off the large and beautiful bow of Chitrasena that was capable of checking foes. And cutting through his coat of mail he pierced his antagonist's breast with a shaft. Then the princes of thy army; all heroic and mighty car-warriors; excited with wrath and united together in that conflict; pierced him with sharp arrows. And Abhimanyu; acquainted with the mightiest weapons; smote them all with keen shafts. Beholding that feat of his; thy sons then surrounded the son of Arjuna; who was consuming thy army in that conflict like a swelling fire of blazing flames consuming a heap of dry grass in summer. And the son of Subhadra; while smiting thy troops (thus); seemed to glow in splendour. Seeing that conduct of his; thy grandson Lakshmana then; O monarch;...