Mahabharata Bibliomancy Reading

This oracle randomly points to a line from one of sacred books of Mahabharata. The surrounding lines are also provided for context.

 

Your passage is from BOOK 7 - DRONA PARVA - SECTION CVIII.

 

Surrounding Context from

BOOK 7 - DRONA PARVA - SECTION CVIII

Then drawing his terrible bow whose twang resembled the thunder of Indra, he pierced the son of the Wind-god with five and twenty shafts, and Bhimasena’s son with five, and Yudhishthira with three, and Sahadeva with seven, and Nakula with three and seventy, and each of the five sons of Draupadi with five shafts, and uttered a loud roar.

Then Bhimasena pierced him in return with nine shafts, and Sahadeva with five.

And Yudhishthira pierced the Rakshasa with a hundred shafts.

And Nakula pierced him with three shafts.

The son of Hidimva having pierced him with five hundred shafts, Alamvusha once more pierced him with seventy, and that mighty warrior uttered a loud roar.

With that loud roar of Ghatotkacha the earth shook, O king, with her mountains and forests and with her trees and waters.

Deeply pierced on all sides by those great bowmen and mighty car-warriors, Alamvusha pierced each of them in return with five arrows.

Then that Rakshasa, O chief of the Bharatas, viz., the son of Hidimva, filled with rage, pierced that other angry Rakshasa in battle with many shafts.

Then that mighty prince of Rakshasas, viz., Alamvusha, deeply pierced, quickly shot countless shafts equipped with wings of gold and whetted on stone.

Those shafts, perfectly straight, all entered the body of Ghatotkacha, like angry snakes of great strength entering a mountain summit.

Then the Pandavas, O king, filled with anxiety, and Hidimva’s son Ghatotkacha, also sped at their foe from every side clouds of keen shafts.

Thus struck in battle by the Pandavas, desirous of victory, Alamvusha mortal as he was, did not know what to do.

Then that delighter in battle, viz., the mighty son of Bhimasena, beholding that state of Alamvusha, set his heart upon his destruction.

He rushed with great impetuosity towards the car of the prince of Rakshasas, that car which resembled a burnt mountain summit or a broken heap of antimony.

The son of Hidimva, inflamed with wrath, flew from his own car to that of Alamvusha, and seized the latter.