Almost all those people, whoever behold him (Ashvatthaman), who then looked like the highly enraged Death himself, who resembled the very destroyer of Death himself, had wholly lost their senses.
तमन्तकमिव क्रुद्धमन्तकस्यान्तकोपमम्। ये ये दद्दशिरे यत्र विसंज्ञाः प्रायसोऽभवन्॥