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ther. After that, he struck the horses of the carriage, and wounded 

 his troops, so that rivers of hostile blood began to flow ; and Sal, 

 who could not find a moment to return the discharge, with grief 

 and amazement discovered that Creeshna's sons were even more 

 courageous than their father. Sal was now again obliged to 

 have recourse to his magic and incantations instead of the sword, 

 and made himself one moment a dwarf, the next a giant ; now visi- 

 ble, now invisible : one moment he was in the sky, another on 

 earth ; now raining down water, and now fire. Predemne de- 

 molished the force of all his spells and sorcery by his own superior 

 skill in the black art. Sal had a particular friend, named Dere- 

 man, whom, at his first effort, Predemne had stretched senseless on 

 the ground with an arrow. When he came to himself, he grasped 

 his battle-axe, and, running up to Predemne, with a furious blow 

 deprived him of sensation. 



Predemne's companions, on his being thrown down senseless, had 

 been cast into utter despair ; but, on his recovery, which was in- 

 stantaneous, new life seemed to have entered their bodies. Pre- 

 demne, now, with four arrows, slew Sal's four horses ; next his 

 driver : he then cut away his standard and canopy, or umbrella, and 

 so terrified his army, that most of them fled and plunged into the 

 river. The battle lasted twelve clays. All the Yadavas applauded 

 Sal ; for, no warrior before him had been able to keep on the en- 

 gagement with them for more than five days, and he had fought 

 twelve. About this period, Creeshna took leave of the Pandoos, and 

 returned to Dwaraka. On the road he discovered that great mischief 

 had been done in Dwaraka, and concluded that Rajah Sal had gone 

 thither. Although he knew that Predemne had learnt the arts of 

 Maya, yet he thought Sal his superior in that science ; so he made 

 his charioteer Darek make all possible expedition, and they quickly 

 arrived at Dwaraka. Sal's troops spied Creeshna's standard, and 



