When the world was thus lit up, though shrouded in dust and darkness, the heroes came together then, eager to slay one another. Meeting in battle, O king, bearing weapons, spears, and swords, they gazed upon each other, having wronged one another. And with thousands of lamps blazing on every side, the earth then shone like the sky with its stars, O Bharata. With hundreds of blazing torches the battlefield shone, like the earth ablaze at the dissolution of the worlds.