O monarch, heaps of unshapely and mangled bodies of elephants and horses, cutoff by Dhananjaya with his weapons in different ways and broken cars made the field look ghastly and awful and the way uneven and impassable, resembling the great river Vaitarani.
धनंजयशराभ्यस्तैः स्यन्दनाश्वरथद्विपैः। संछिन्नभिन्नविध्वस्तैर्व्यङ्गङ्गावयवैः स्तृता॥ सुदुर्गमा सुविषमा घोरात्यर्थ सुदुर्दशा। रणभूमिरभूद राजन् महावैतरणी यथा।॥