The Earth looks awful covered with elephants with shattered tusks, vomiting blood, crying piteously in anguish in the battle-field, deprived of their armourless drivers and the infantry that protected them, with their quivers, banners and standards broken down and having their bodies that were adorned with nets of gold, wounded deep with the arrows of the enemy.
रुद्वेपमानैःपतितैः पृथिव्याम्। विशीर्णदन्तः क्षतजं वमद्धि स्फुद्भिराते करुणं नदद्भिः॥ निकृत्तचक्रेषुयुगैः सयोक्तृभिः प्रविद्धतूणीरपताककेतुभिः। महारथौळेर्जलदैरिवावृता॥