Sanjaya said Sceing the Panchalas, the Pandavas, the Matsyas, the Srinjayas, the Chedis and the Kekayas, fly from the field having been broken in their ranks by the shafts of Drona. Seeing them thus routed by those thick showers of swift-falling arrows discharged from the bow of Drona, like frail barks driven adrift by the surging bellows of the mighty main. The Kauravas uttering many loud war-cries and with the sound of many other musical instruments, impeded the fight of the chariots, the elephants and the men (of the hostile host) on all sides.
संजय उवाच तान् दृष्ट्वा चलितान् संख्ये प्रणुन्नान् द्रोणसायकैः। पञ्चालान् पाण्डवान् मत्स्यान् सृञ्जयांश्चेदिकेकयान्॥ द्रोणचापविमुक्तेन शरौघेणाशुहारिणा। सिन्धोरिव महौघेन द्वियमाणान् यथा प्लवान्॥ कौरवाः सिंहनादेन नानावाद्यस्वनेन च। रथद्विपनरांश्चैव सर्वतः समवारयन्॥