Sanjaya said “Having heard of Duryodhana's fall from the messengers, those powerful car-warriors, the remnant of the Kaurava arıny greatly wounded with keen arrows and maces and lances and darts-those three, viz.. Ashvathaman and Kripa and Kritavarman of the Satwata race, riding at breakneck pace on their swift chargers came to the field of battle. They saw there the high-souled son of Dhritarashtra lying low on the ground, like a gigantic Shala tree laid low in the forest by a storm. They saw him suffering on the mother Earth and covered with blood like a powerful elephant in the forest laid low by a hunter. They saw him suffering and bleeding profusely.
संजय उवाच वार्तिकाणां सकाशात् तु श्रुत्वा दुर्योधनं हतम्। हतशिष्टास्ततो राजन् कौरवाणां महारथाः॥ विनिर्भिन्नाः शितैर्बाणैर्गदातोमरशक्तिभिः। अश्वत्थामा कृपश्चैव कृतवर्मा च सात्वतः॥ त्वरिता जवनैरश्वैरायोधनमुपागमन्। तत्रापश्यन् महात्मानं धार्तराष्ट्र निपातितम्॥ प्रभग्नं वायुवेगेन महाशालं यथा वने। भूमौ विचेष्टमानं तं रुधिरेण समुक्षितम्॥ महागजमिवारण्ये व्याधेन विनिपातितम्। विवर्तमानं वहुशो रुधिरौधपरिप्लुतम्॥