Satyasena - AncientVoice

Mbh.8.7.214	So also thy sons Sushena, armed with sword and shield, and the heroic Satyasena, are staying with Citrasena, their hearts full of joy and themselves desirous of battle.
Mbh.8.27.1149	And Satyasena and Candradeva, and Mitradeva and Satrunjaya, and Susruta's son, and Citrasena, and Mitravarman, O Bharata, and the king of the Trigartas surrounded by his brothers and by his sons that were all mighty bowmen accomplished in diverse weapons, suddenly advanced, shooting and scattering showers of shafts in that battle, against Arjuna, like a fierce current of water towards the ocean.
Mbh.8.27.1152	Satyasena, in that encounter, pierced that son of Pandu with three arrows, and Mitradeva pierced him with three and sixty, and Candradeva with seven.
Mbh.8.27.1156	Indeed, piercing the son of Susruta with seven arrows, he pierced Satyasena with three, Satrunjaya with twenty and Candradeva with eight, Mitradeva with a hundred, Srutasena with three, Mitravarman with nine, and Susharma with eight.
Mbh.8.27.1160	Then Satyasena filled with rage, hurled a formidable lance in that battle aiming at Krishna and uttered a leonine roar.
Mbh.8.27.1163	Beholding Vasudeva's limb pierced through, Pritha's son Dhananjaya mustered all his wrath and addressing Vasudeva said, O mighty-armed one, bear the car to Satyasena, O puissant one, so that I may, with keen shafts, despatch him to Yama's abode
Mbh.8.27.1165	Beholding the Ruler of the Universe pierced, Pritha's son Dhananjaya, that mighty car-warrior, checking Satyasena with some keen arrows, cut off with a number of broad-headed shafts of great sharpness, the large head of that king decked with earrings, from off his trunk at the head of the army.
Mbh.8.48.2648	The two protectors of Karna's car wheels, viz, his two invincible sons, O sire, that were named Sushena and Satyasena, began to fight, reckless of their very lives.
Mbh.8.49.2735	And he struck Sushena and Satyasena, each with three arrows.
Mbh.9.10.589	Meanwhile, the two sons of Karna, Sushena and Satyasena, both of whom were great car-warriors, beholding their brother slain, shot showers of keen shafts.
Mbh.9.10.595	Then Nakula, laughing, smote the four steeds of Satyasena with four whetted and keen shafts in that encounter.
Mbh.9.10.596	Aiming a long shaft equipped with wings of gold, the son of Pandu then cut off, O monarch, the bow of Satyasena.
Mbh.9.10.601	Without losing a moment, he then cut off the bow and the leathern fence of Satyasena also, O sire, at which all the troops there uttered a loud shout.
Mbh.9.10.602	Satyasena, taking up another foe-slaying bow that was capable of bearing a great strain, shrouded the son of Pandu with arrows from every side.
Mbh.9.10.606	The valiant Satyasena then, endued with great lightness of hand, cut off without his brother's help the shafts of Nakula's car and his bow with a couple of arrows.
Mbh.9.10.609	Raising that weapon he hurled it at Satyasena in that encounter.
Mbh.9.10.610	That dart, O king, pierced the heart of Satyasena in that battle and reduced it into a hundred fragments.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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