But he could not make the latter tremble in battle before him, and so again pierced him with many arrows. Then the son of Phalguna cut off the bow of the Kosala king once more; and he struck him with thirty shafts furnished with wings of the Kanka feather. Thereupon that prince Brihadbala taking up another bow, and waxing irascible, pierced with many an arrow the son of Phalguna. Indeed, O afflicter of enemies, the battle, that took place for the sake of Bhishma, between them both, O king, inflamed with anger and both well versed in all manner of warfare, was like that between Bali and Vasava in the days of yore on the occasion of the war between the celestial and the Asuras.