The surface of the earth being covered with clephant-riders and horsemen and killed horses and warriors with blood-stained armours and those armed with weapons and those who had tried to kill one another with various kinds of terrible weapons, all lying in a mass in that lifedestroying battle, no warrior could proceed far on his horse.
साश्वारोहैर्हतैरश्वैरावृते वसुधातले॥ रुधिरोक्षितसन्नाहैरात्तशस्त्रैरुदायुधैः। नानाप्रहरणै?रैः परस्परवधैषिभिः॥