शरैः सहस्रशो विद्धा द्विपाः प्रस्रुतशोणिताः ॥
व्यदृश्यन्ताद्रयः काले गैरिकाम्बुस्रवा इव ॥
निहताः शेरते स्मान्ये बीभत्सोर् निशितैः शरैः ॥
गजपृष्ठगता म्लेच्छा नानाविकृतदर्शनाः ॥
नानावेषधरा राजन् नानाशस्त्रौघसंवृताः ॥
रुधिरेणानुलिप्ताङ्गा भान्ति चित्रैः शरैर् हताः ॥
śaraiḥ sahasraśo viddhā dvipāḥ prasrutaśoṇitāḥ ||
vyadṛśyantādrayaḥ kāle gairikāmbusravā iva ||
nihatāḥ śerate smānye bībhatsor niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
gajapṛṣṭhagatā mlecchā nānāvikṛtadarśanāḥ ||
nānāveṣadharā rājan nānāśastraughasaṃvṛtāḥ ||
rudhireṇānuliptāṅgā bhānti citraiḥ śarair hatāḥ ||
Pierced by thousands of arrows, elephants streaming with blood were seen, [like] mountains in the [rainy] season, as if streaming water mixed with ochre. Slain by the sharp arrows of Bibhatsu, others lay — mlecchas who sat upon elephants' backs, of various hideous appearance, in various garments, O king, surrounded by streams of various weapons, with bodies smeared with blood — they shine, slain by many-colored arrows.
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The image 'adrayaḥ… gairikāmbusravāḥ iva,' 'mountains streaming ochre-water,' for the bloodied elephants, is potent and mournful: blood flows from them like red streams down mountains in foul weather. It is telling that the poem shows the deaths of men, foreign mlecchas, and elephants alike: death makes no distinction. The verse teaches that war destroys indiscriminately — one's own and strangers, humans and animals; and the blood flowing from fallen elephants, like ochre streams from mountains, is a single stream of suffering in which the differences of tribe and lineage are erased before the common lot of destruction.