Arjuna then caused a river to flow on the field of battle, of which (slain) foot-soldiers, car-warriors, horses and elephants formed and embankments; shower of shafts formed the rafts (wherewith to cross it); hair of (slain) combatants formed the moss and the weed floating on the moss and the weed floating on the surface; and blood formed its surging billows; and that river was dreadful and fierce to look at. The fingers cut-off from the arms of warriors constituted its smaller fishes; it was as dreadful as the Destroyer himself at the end of a Yuga; the bodies of (slain) elephants chocked its flow and that river of blood proceeded towards the kingdom of Yama. The carth was deluged with the blood flowing from the bodies of slain princes, elephants horses, car-warriors and horsemen.
पत्त्यश्वरथनागैश्च प्रच्छन्नकृतसंक्रमाम्। शरवर्षप्लवां घोरां केशशैवलशाद्वलाम्। प्रावर्तयन्नदीमुग्रां शोणितौघतरङ्गिणीम्॥ छिन्नाङ्गुलीक्षुद्रमत्स्यां युगान्ते कालसंनिभाम्। प्राकरोद् गजसम्बाधां नदीमुत्तरशोणिताम्॥ देहेभ्यो राजपुत्राणां नागाश्वरथसादिनाम्।