When the sun reached the meridian and when the sky burned with his fiery rays, the Kurus and the Pandava began to kill one another. Then chariots, mounted with flagstaffs from the tops of which pennons were fluttering, and variegated with gold and covered with tiger-skins, appeared beautiful as they drove through the scene of battle.
मध्यंदिनगते सूर्ये नभस्याकुलतां गते। कुरवः पाण्डवेयाश्च निजघ्नुरितरेतरम्॥ ध्वजिनो हेमचित्राङ्गा विचरन्तो रणाजिरे। सपताका रथा रेजुर्वैयाघ्रपरिवारणाः॥