Many powerful heroes dragged one another from the backs of their horses and encountering one another thus, killed one another like wrestlers. Many, deprived of life, were carried away by the horses they rode.
केशाकेशि समालग्ना न शेकुश्चेष्टितुं नराः। अन्योन्यमश्वपृष्ठेभ्यो विकर्षन्तो महाबलाः॥ मल्ला इव समासाद्य निजघ्नुरितरेतरम्।