Sanjaya said Arjuna in that great battle, after destroying the four divisions (of the army belonging to the enemy) and taking a glance of the enraged son of Suta, make a river of blood to flow there, a river that was filled with flesh, bones and marrow; elephants and horses formed the bed of that river; and human heads, like rocks and stones strewn on all sides, seemed to resound with the cries of crows and ravens, umbrellas floated like swans; and bodies of brave soldiers like so many trees drifted away by the current; necklaces were like lotuses in the stream; and head-dresses its foam, broken pieces of skulls floated about and bows and arrows were like fishes in it; armours and shields formed its eddies; chariots, with which it teemed, were like its rafts; and braver-hearted men could alone cross that bloody stream, while the fainthearted sunk within to navigate it.
संजय उवाच अर्जुनस्तु महाराज हत्वा सैन्यं चतुर्विधम्। सूतपुत्रं च संक्रुद्ध दृष्ट्वा चैव महारणे॥ शोणितोदां महीं कृत्वा सांसमजास्थिपङ्कलाम्। मनुष्य शीर्षपाषाणां हस्त्यश्वकृतरोधसम्॥ शूरस्थिचयसंकीर्णा काकगृध्रानुनादिताम्। छत्रहंसप्लवोपेता वीरवृक्षापहरिणीम्॥ हारपद्माकरवतीमुष्णीषवरफेनिलाम्। धनुःशरध्वजोपेतांन नरक्षुद्रकपालिनीम्॥ चर्मवर्मभ्रमोपेतां रथोडुपसामाकुलाम्। जयैषिणां च सुतरां भीरूणां च सुदुतराम्॥