For this reason, the royal combatants fought on guided by conjecture and the challenges they uttered. Destitute of chariots, the carwarriors, O monarch, encountering another, lost all order and became confounded mass. Their horses slain the charioteer killed, many, becoming incapacitated, saved their lives and looked highly frightened. Staughtered steeds, with their riders slain, were seen to lie over elephants as if prostrate on mountain tops. Then Drona, inoving towards the northern quarter of the field.
उद्देशेन हि तेन स्म समयुध्यन्त पार्थिवाः। विरथा रथिनो राजन् समासाद्य परस्परम्॥ केशेषु समसज्जन्त कवचेषु भुजेषु च। हताश्वा हतसूताश्च निश्चेष्टा रथिनो हताः॥ जीवन्त इव तत्र स्म व्यदृश्यन्त भयार्दिताः। हतान् गजान् समाश्लिष्य पर्वतानिव वाजिनः॥ गतसत्त्वा व्यदृश्यन्त तथैव सह सादिभिः। ततस्त्वभ्यवसृत्यैव संग्रामादुत्तरां दिशम्॥