Having reached Kurukshetra, those widowed ladies beheld their killed their killed brothers and sons and sires and husbands lying on carth, as their bodies were being devoured by beasts of prey and wolves and ravens and crows and ghosts and Pishchas and Rakshasas and various other night-rangers.
समासाद्य कुरुक्षेत्रं ताः स्त्रियो निहतेश्वराः। अपश्यन्त हतांस्तत्र पुत्रान् भ्रातृन् पितॄन् पतीन्॥ क्रव्यादैर्भक्ष्यमाणान् वै गोमायुबलवायसैः। भूतैः पिशाचै रक्षोभिर्विविधैश्च निशाचरैः॥