Shalya said Look at this dreadful scene of action, O hero, covered with numberless killed men, horses and elephants. Some places are covered with of huge mountain-like elephants, maimed and their vital parts wounded with shafts. the armours, weapons, shields and swords of the lifeless warriors, shields and swords of the lifeless warriors are lying on all sides. They resemble huge mountains clapped with thunder, with trees, rocks and herbs dropping drown from them on all sides. The bells, hooks, lances and standards with which these huge animals, were equipped have been scattered on the ground. The bodies, which were adorned with golden trappings, are now covered with blood. Some places are covered with the carcasses of killed horses, mangled with arrows, breathing hard in agony carcasses and vomiting blood. Some of them are crying in agony, some of them are biting the earth with rolling eyes and some are neighing pitecusly. A part of the battle-field is covered with elephant warriors and horsemen thrown off their animals and car-warriors forcibly knocked down from their cars. Some of them are already and others are on the points of death. Covered with the dead bodies of men, horses and elephants their trunks and limbs and broken cars, the Earth looks awful like the great Vaitarini.
शल्य उवाच रायोधनं वीरहतैः सुपूणम्। महीधराभैः पतितैश्च नागैः सकृत्यप्रभिन्नैः शरभिन्नदेहैः॥ सविह्वलद्भिश्च गतासुभिश्च प्रध्वस्तवर्मायुधचर्मखङ्गैः। विभिन्नपाषाणमहाद्रुमौषधैः॥ प्रविद्धघण्टाङ्कुशतोमरध्वजैः सहेमजालैः रुधिरौघसम्प्लुतैः। शरावभिन्नैः पतितैस्तुरङ्गमैः श्वसद्भिरातेश्र क्षतजं वमद्भिः॥ मही दशद्भिः कृपणं नदद्भिः। तथापविद्धैर्गजावाजियोधैः शरापरिद्धैरथ वीरसंधै।॥ मन्दासुभिश्चैव गतासुभिश्च नराश्वनागैश्च रथैश्च मर्दितैः। मन्दानशुभिश्चैव मही महाहवे नूनं यथा वैतरवणीव भाति॥