Verse 29

²⁵Elephants fell with their foreheads split open; horses by the score with their necks cut through by arrows; chariots with their horses and banners and drivers and captains killed; footmen with their arms and thighs and necks cut off. ²⁶From the limbs of the two-footed and the elephants and the horses being cut apart, rivers of blood were born by the hundred, with arms for snakes and men's heads for turtles, thick with dead elephants for islands and horses for crocodiles, ²⁷with hands and thighs for fish, men's hair for waterweed, bows for waves and weapons for thickets, terrible with chariot wheels for whirlpools, and great choice jewels and ornaments for their stones and gravel.

²⁸These were set running in the battle, bringing fear to cowards and joy to men of spirit, one against another, by Sankarsana, whose splendour cannot be measured, striking down with his club the enemies in their mad pride. ²⁹That force, terrible as a stronghold the sea makes, with no crossing to the far side of it, kept by the lord of Magadha, was brought to ruin by the two sons of Vasudeva. That was the highest sport of those two lords of the world.