Vaikartana

Mbh.7.177.9609	Devoted to the good of thy sons, the high-souled Vaikartana, in the battle, began to strike his foes with lances endued with the force of thunder, and with whetted shafts, equipped with beautiful wings of gold.
Mbh.7.178.9712	Indeed, because Karna, cutting off his natural armour and his brilliant car-rings, gave them unto Sakra, it is for that he came to be called Vaikartana.
Mbh.8.4.99	Vaishampayana continued, Thus addressed by the king, O Janamejaya, the Suta said unto him, The mighty car-warrior Vaikartana, O monarch, hath been slain with his sons and brothers, and other Suta warriors, all of whom were mighty bowmen ready to lay down their lives in battle!
Mbh.8.9.332	What did that mighty car-warrior among the Satwatas, that great bowman, Kritavarma the son of Hridika, say when he saw Vaikartana slain?
Mbh.8.9.336	What also did all the other warriors, difficult of defeat in battle, those lords of earth that came to fight, say, O Sanjaya, when they behold Vaikartana slain?
Mbh.8.9.338	Tell me, O Sanjaya, how that foremost of car-warriors, Shalya the ruler of the Madras, became engaged in driving the car of Vaikartana!
Mbh.8.34.1842	Karna otherwise called Vaikartana, O king, cannot be an ordinary person.
Mbh.8.35.1857	Sanjaya said, Unto the ruler of the Madras who was speaking in that strain, that chastiser of foes, viz, thy mighty-armed son of cheerful soul replied, saying, Do not, O mighty-armed one, think disparagingly of Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, in battle, that warrior who is the foremost of all wielders of arms and who is acquainted with the meaning of the whole body of our scriptures.
Mbh.8.35.1877	I have, however, O hero, a compact to make with Vaikartana, and that is this: I will utter whatever words I may wish, in this one's presence
Mbh.8.37.1945	That slayer of hostile heroes, that foremost of car-warriors, viz, Vaikartana, as he stayed on his car recollecting the death of Bhishma and Drona, blazed up with splendour like the Sun or fire.
Mbh.8.48.2643	Aiming then, O Bharata, five irresistible shafts, Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana or Vrisha, slew five Pancala warriors.
Mbh.8.49.2713	The Pandus and the Pancalas obstructed Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, who careered wrathfully in battle like the Destroyer himself, even as people seek to obstruct a disease with incantations and drugs.
Mbh.8.50.2852	Beholding Bhima coming towards him, Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana or Vrisha, filled with rage, struck him with shafts in the centre of the chest.
Mbh.8.54.3063	Karna too, otherwise called Vaikartana, O Bharata, in that battle, resisted Bhimasena, and the Karushas, the Kaikayas, and the Srinjayas.
Mbh.8.62.3638	Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, O king, shooting dense showers of arrows, checked, single-handed, all those mighty bowmen thus advancing to the rescue.
Mbh.8.72.4345	Slay in battle today, O Partha, that Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, in consequence of whose energy Dhritarashtra's son disregards thine
Mbh.8.73.4361	Save thee, O tiger among men, what other man in this world is able to vanquish those fierce lords of akshauhinis, those unreturning and invincible heroes, all accomplished in weapons and united together, Shantanu's son Bhishma, and Drona, and Vaikartana, and Kripa, and Drona's son, and king Duryodhana himself?
Mbh.8.74.4501	They that were on that occasion sesame seeds without kernel, will today become seeds with kernel after the fall of the Suta's son Karna of wicked soul, otherwise called Vaikartana!
Mbh.8.82.5023	Those five foremost of Pancala car-warriors rushed against Karna otherwise called Vaikartana, but they could not shake him off his car like the objects of the senses failing to shake off the person of purified soul from abstinence.
Mbh.8.89.5545	Vaikartana also, in the midst of that battle, shot thousands of arrows.
Mbh.8.90.5636	Beholding Vaikartana aim that arrow, the high-souled ruler of the Madras, addressing Karna, said, This arrow, O Karna, will not succeed in striking off Arjuna's head.
Mbh.8.91.5859	Indeed, O king, with that excellent Anjalika weapon inspired with mantras into a mighty weapon, the son of Indra cut off the head of Vaikartana in the afternoon.
Mbh.8.94.6031	Adorned with diverse ornaments and decked with Angadas made of bright gold, Vaikartana, though slain, lay stretched like a gigantic tree adorned with branches and twigs.
Mbh.8.94.6036	Having scorched the Pandavas and the Pancalas with the energy of his weapons, having poured showers of arrows and burnt the hostile divisions, having, indeed, heated the universe like the thousand-rayed Surya of great beauty, Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, left the world, with his sons and followers.
Mbh.8.95.6074	SECTION Sanjaya said, Upon the fall of Karna otherwise called Vaikartana, the Kauravas, afflicted with fear, fled away on all sides, casting their eyes on empty space.
Mbh.8.96.6114	The Suta's son Karna, possessed of great might and otherwise called Vaikartana, hath been slain.
Mbh.9.25.1691	Bhishma hath been slain, Drona hath been slain, Karna, otherwise called Vaikartana, hath been slain!

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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