Horsemen then fought not with horsemen and elephant-riders fought not with other elephant-riders. But like men seized with fury, O Bharata, they indiscriminately slaughtered men one another, O monarch, in that battle. Fierce and great was the carnage that then spread itself among the ranks of the two armies, as and elephants, by hundreds, were scattered slain in all directions.
अश्वा नाश्वैरयुध्यन्त गजा न गजयोधिभिः। उन्मत्तवन्महाराज युध्यन्ते तत्र भारत॥ महान् व्यतिकरो रौद्रः सेनयोः समपद्यता नरनागगणेष्वेव विकीर्णेषु च सर्वशः॥