O foremost of the Bharata race, when the armies thus stood in battle-array the sun rise bereft of its splendor and the earth trembled with loud sounds. The roars of thunder were again and again heard on all sides.
अथ संनह्यमानेषु सैन्येषु भरतर्षभ। निष्प्रभोऽभ्युद्ययौ सूर्यः सघोषं भूश्चचाल च॥ व्यशीर्यत सनादा च भूस्तदा भरतर्षभ। निर्घाता बहवो राजन् दिक्षु सर्वासु चाभवन्॥