Having walked in the path of wicked warriors, Ashvatthaman, after that destruction, looked like the blazing fire at the end of the cycle, reducing all creatures to ashes.
दुर्गमां पदवीं गत्वा विरराज जनक्षये॥ युगान्ते सर्वभूतानि भस्म कृत्वेव पावकः।