As in a wild the herds of deer are scared away before an angry lion or other animals seeing an wolf, so, in that battle, the foremost car-warriors of the Panchalas and other great car-warriors of the Pandavas were driven before Karna.
मृगसङ्घान यथा क्रुद्धः सिंहो द्रावयते वने॥ पञ्चालानां रयश्रेष्ठान् द्रावयशात्रवांस्तथा। कर्णस्तु समरे योधास्त्रासयन् सुमहायशाः॥ कालयामास तत् सैन्यं यथा पशुगणान् वृकः।