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В переводе с санскритизованого нашей достопочтенной Накиран:
NIGHT OF DAY 14 CONTINUES :
KARNA & YUDHISHTIRA
KARNA vs GATOTKACHA - KARNA KILLS GATOTKACHA BY VAJRA WEAPON
Karna, after letting Sahadeva , concentrates on Yudhishtira now. Karna now is uncontrollable as he destroys the Panchala army & makes Drishtadyumna run to another chariot for safety . Despite Yudhishtira trying his best, he was no match was karna.
A panicking Yudishtira screams at Arjuna to save him & also kill Karna immediately.
Seeing the prowess of Karna, Arjuna exclaims to Krishna now :
Yudhishtira if frightened by Karna today. Our army is flying away . I see Karna careering fearlessly. Our foremost of car-warriors are flying away. Karna is scattering his keen shafts. I cannot, like a snake incapable of putting up with the tread of a human being upon its body, bear to see him thus careering at the head of battle, before my eyes. Proceed, therefore, to that spot where Karna is. I will either kill him, or let him slay me.
Krishna in reply :
There is none else capable of advancing against him in battle, except U.. I do not, however, regard the time to have come.
Saying this, Krishna quickly calls for Gatotkacha & explains him the situation & asks him to fight with karma. Ever obedient & brave
Gatotkacha takes up the challenge & rushes towards Karna.
& the fight between the 2 looked like another war itself.
Gatotkacha displayed all his magical illusion skills & troubled the entire Kaurava army backed by Karna & Duryodhana. Karna tried all conventional weapons by Gatotkacha was stubborn.
Gatotkacha’s destruction was so immense that Duryodhana time & again irritated Karna by asking him to use the dart given by Indra.
Duryodhana was worried because the manner of penetration caused by the Rakshasha was such that a major portion of Kauravas were destroyed
Then Karna, seeing the Rakshasa alive at dead of night, and the Kuru army struck with fear, and hearing also the loud wails of the latter set his heart upon hurling his dart. Inflamed with rage, Karna took up that foremost of victory-giving and invincible darts, desirous of compassing the destruction of Ghatotkacha.
THAT POTENT DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON OF INDRA WHICH WAS GIVEN AS A QUID PRO QUO BY INDRA WHEN KARNA GIFTED HIM HIS EAR RINGS & KAVACHA WAS THUS APPLIED BY KARNA ON GATOTKACHA.
that fierce weapon which looked like the very tongue of the Destroyer was now hurled at the Rakshasa. Indeed, seeing that dart in Karna's hand, all creatures in the sky uttered loud cries.
Fierce winds began to blow, and thunders with loud report began to fall on the earth. Destroying that blazing illusion of Ghatotkacha and piercing right through his breast that resplendent dart soared aloft in the night and entered a starry constellation in the firmament.
Having fought, using diverse beautiful weapons, with many heroic Rakshasa and human warriors, Ghatotkacha, then uttering diverse terrible roars, fell, deprived of life with that dart of Indra.
Even while falling down dead, Gatotkacha took a huge form that fell on the Kaurava army & killed so many by the sheer size & weight of the body.
While the entire Kauravas celebrated Karna , the Pandavas were filled with grief .
However, there was one person who was cheerful on this incident. It was Krishna .
Indeed, uttering loud shouts he embraced Arjuna. Tying the steeds and uttering loud roars, he began to dance in a transport of joy.
Then embraced Arjuna once more,
A grief sticken Arjuna wondered at Krishna :
Krishna, the cause must be very grave when at such a time U feel so much joy.Tell me truly what that cause .
Krishna replied :
Great is the joy I feel. Listen to me, Krishna. that Karna, his dart being baffled through Ghatotkacha, is already slain. The man does not exist in this world that could not stay before Karna armed with that dart.
By good luck, Karna’s natural armour ( KAVACHA )had been taken away.
By good luck, his earrings also had been taken away.
By good luck, his infallible dart also is now baffled, through Ghatotkacha.
With the above 3 strong assets, Karna was invincible. Let me tell U emphatically that even U could not have killed Karna . No , not even my Sudharshana chakra could have touched Karna.
For Ur good, Karna was divested of his ear-rings by Indra
Similarly was that deprived of his (natural) armour. Indeed, because Karna, cutting off his (natural) armour and his brilliant car-rings, gave them unto Indra.
He is incapable of being vanquished in battle by the gods
Consider urself to be fortunate now that the might of Karna is already diluted .
With his dart , if Karna had not slain him, I myself would have had to slay Bhima's son Ghatotkacha. From desire of benefiting you, I did not slay him before. That Rakshasa was inimical to Brahmanas and sacrifices. Because he was a destroyer of sacrifices and of a sinful soul, therefore he had been thus slain.
Now lets focus on Drona .
Hearing the words of Krishna, Arjuna starts his focus on Drona now.