Verse 15

⁶There the two sides, their minds inflamed, came at one another in the fight and struck each other down with swords and arrows and weapons of every kind. ⁷Conches, trumpets, drums, kettledrums and tabors, and elephants and horses and chariots and foot-soldiers all crying out, made a great noise. ⁸Chariot-fighters closed with chariot-fighters there, foot-soldiers with foot-soldiers, horses with horses and elephants with elephants in the fray. ⁹Some fought on camels, some on elephants, others on asses; some of the fighting men on white-faced bears, on leopards, on lions. ¹⁰Others on vultures, on herons, on cranes, on hawks and bhasa birds and on the great fish of the sea; on sarabhas, on buffaloes, on rhinoceroses, on bulls and on red gavayas.

¹¹Some on she-jackals, on rats, on lizards, on hares, on men; some on goats, some on black antelope, and others on geese and on boars. ¹²Others on creatures of the water and the land and the air, misshapen in body. These, king, went in at the very front of both armies. ¹³With bright flag-cloths, king, with parasols white and spotless and costly, their staffs of diamond, with fans and with whisks of peacock feathers, ¹⁴with upper turbans shaken by the wind, with the blaze of armour and ornaments, with bright weapons glittering, and most of all with the rays of the sun, ¹⁵the two flag-bearing hosts of the heroes of the gods and the Danavas, son of Pandu, shone with their garlands of heroes like two seas with the creatures in them.