Duryodhana, in his obstinate folly, refused to give even these five villages and so, these great sins have to be committed on both sides.

I continue fighting onlybecause men would otherwise think me a coward, who could submit tamely to wrong. When I see the dead warriors lying on the field, my heart is filled with unbearable anguish. Oh, how wicked we are to carry on in this miserable, sinful way.

Seeing Iravan killed, Ghatotkacha uttered a loud war-cry which made all theassembled soldiers tremble, and with his division, fell upon the Kaurava army ferociously. So great was the destruction he wrought that at many points the Kaurava formation was broken.