The field of battle appeared beautiful with huge chariots splintered into pieces and with their warriors, drivers ornaments, steeds, standards streamers crushed, shattered and torn to pieces. Those cars then, o monarch, resembled animate beings deprived of their vital breaths by the enemy with his arrows.
हताश्वसूतैविपताककेतुभिः। महारथैर्भूः शुशुभे विचूर्णितः पुरैरिवामित्रहतैर्नराधिप॥