Innumerable elephants had their frontal globes severed and the bodies besmeared with blood and the trunks cut-off into fragments. Moreover, O sire, some other elephants, being slaughtered by that high souled one (Karna) fell down with their armour cut-off, or their tails curtailed, like the masses of clouds dispersed by the wind.
भिन्नकुम्भारुधिरश्छिन्नहस्ताश्च वारणाः॥ छिन्नगात्रावराचैव च्छिन्नवालधयोऽपरे। छिन्नाभ्राणीव सम्पेतुर्हन्यमाना महात्मना॥