He feared things had gone wrong d said to Krishna: "Madhusudana, this is the cry of Supratika, Bhagadatta's elephant. Thisking of Pragjyotisha is terrible with his elephant, and has no equal in that kind of warfare.He is sure to defeat and confound our men.

We must proceed at once and save the situation. We have punished these samsaptakas enough. Drive to where Drona is engaging Yudhishthira." Krishna drove the chariot accordingly towards the main battle-front.

Susarma and his brothers came up behind the chariot and shouted "Stop, stop." At the same time, they discharged shafts at Arjuna's chariot.

Arjuna was in two minds.

"Here is Susarma challenging me to battle and I hated declining this kind of invitation, but there, to the north of us, our formation seems broken and our men are in need of immediate relief."