Ten thousand elephants with juice trickling down their checks and mouth, each endued with great courage, each as huge as a hill, each blazing with golden caparisons, each emitting the fragrance of lotuses, followed the king like so many moving mountains.
वारणा दशसाहस्राः प्रभिन्नकरटामुखाः। शूरा हेममयैर्जालैर्दीप्यमाना इवाचलाः॥ क्षरन्त इव जीमूता महार्हाः पद्मगन्धिनः। राजानमन्वयुः पश्चाज्जीमूता इव वार्षिकाः॥