He got up on his renowned elephant Supratika and charged against Bhimasena. The gigantic beast rushed forward with widespread ears and twirling trunk,crashed into Bhimasena's chariot, and in an instant, horses and vehicle were anunrecognizable mass, but Bhima escaped by jumping off the car in the nick of time.

He knew all about elephants. He got below thegreat and fierce elephant andshowered blows on vital points until the great beast got mad and whirled round like a potter's wheel, trying to throw off Bhimasena, who was sticking to its legs and harrying it from below.

It bent down and caught Bhima by its trunk andwas about to crush him under itsknees, when Vrikodara somehow releasedhimself from its hold and again got below, in between its limbs and sticking to the ele- phant's under-regions, caused exceeding pain to the beast.

Bhima was thus gaining time in the hope that some elephant on the Pandava side would be led to attack Bhagadatta's elephant and enable him to get away.