The last rites were performed, according to the order of seniority, to the bodies of those heroes killed by the iron bolts born, by virtue of the curse denounced by the Brahmanas, of the blades of Eraka grass.
यथा प्रधानतश्चैव चक्रे सर्वास्तथा क्रियाः। ये हता ब्रह्मशापेन मुसलैरेरकोद्भवैः॥