Eighteen Akshauhinis of soldiers, O monarch, were collected. In eighteen days that army was destroyed by the foremost of Kuru warriors, viz., Bhishma and Drona and others, and the great Karna, and the heroic Yuyudhana and Dhritadyumna, and by the four sons of Pandu, that is, Bhima and Arjuna and the twins. This destruction, O kiing, could not happen without the influence of Destiny.
अक्षौहिण्यो महाराज दशाष्टौ च समागताः॥ अष्टादशाहेन हताः कुरुभिर्योधपुगवैः। भीष्मद्रोणकृपाद्यैश्च कर्णेन च महात्मना॥ युयुधानेन वीरेण धृष्टद्युम्नेन चैव ह। चतुर्भिः पाण्डुपुत्रैश्च भीमार्जुनयमैस्तथा॥ न च क्षयोऽयं नृपते ऋते दैवबलादभूत्।