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Like bright thoughts, two arrows flew down at Drona's feet, two more at Bheeshma's and another two at Kripa's. Arjuna was still too far for them to see him clearly, but a grandson and a pupil greeted his elders! An inspired Uttara Kumara flicked his reins over his horses. As Arjuna's chariot flew nearer, another arrow hummed past Drona's ear and one more. Both spumed up into the sky. Then two shafts whistled past Bheeshma's face, almost brushing his cheek and two past Kripa's: Arjuna was announcing his intention to fight. The Kuru elders picked up their bows.
As the lone chariot skimmed along, Uttara Kumara was a superb sarathy and he hardly knew how himself. Arjuna cried, "I see Drona and Kripa. I see Karna at the head of the Kuru legion. I see my Pitama behind the crescent moon, but nowhere do I see Duryodhana."
His charioteer cried back into the wind that swept their faces like a river, "I see another force riding away to the west. Look, Arjuna, a banner in the wind!"
It was a golden banner, with a menacing black serpent upon it. Arjuna said with a smile, "They have decided Duryodhana must not meet me today. But I mean to fight him. Veer to the west; we must pass the crescent and follow my cousin. He has your father's herd with him and we are here to free the cattle."
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