brothers and sires and husbands.  Behold, O mighty-armed one, the field is covered with mothers of heroes, all of whom, however, have been bereaved of children.  There, those portions again are covered with spouses of heroes, who have, however, been bereaved of their spouses!  Behold, the field of battle is adorned with those tigers among men, Bhishma and Karna and Abhimanyu and Drona and Drupada and Shalya, as if with blazing fires.  Behold, it is adorned also with the golden coats of mail, and with the costly gems, of high-souled warriors, and with their angadas, and keyuras and garlands.  Behold, it is strewn with darts and spiked clubs hurled by heroic hands, and swords and diverse kinds of keen shafts and bows.  Beasts of prey, assembled together, are standing or sporting or lying down as it likes them!  Behold, O puissant hero, the field of battle is even such.  At this sight, O Janardana, I am burning with grief.  In the destruction of the Pancalas and the Kurus, O slayer of Madhu, I think, the five elements (of which everything is made) have been destroyed.  Fierce vultures and other birds, in thousands, are dragging those blood-dyed bodies, and seizing them by their armour, are devouring them.  Who is there that could think of the death of such heroes as Jayadratha and Karna and Drona and Bhishma and Abhimanyu?  Alas, though incapable of being slain, they have yet been slain, O destroyer of Madhu!  Behold, vultures and kankas and ravens and hawks and dogs and jackals are feasting upon them.  There, those tigers among men, that fought on Duryodhanas side, and took the field in wrath, are now lying like extinguished fires.  All of them are worthy of sleeping on soft and clean beds.  But, alas, plunged into distress, they are sleeping today on the bare ground.  Bards reciting their praises used to delight them before at proper times.  They are now listening to the fierce and inauspicious cries of jackals.  Those illustrious heroes who used formerly to sleep on costly beds with their limbs smeared with sandal paste and powdered aloe, alas, now sleep on the dust!  These vultures and wolves and ravens have now become their ornaments.  Repeatedly uttering inauspicious and fierce cries those creatures are now dragging their bodies.  Delighting in battle, those heroes, looking cheerful, have still beside them their keen shafts, well-tempered swords, and bright maces, as if life has not yet departed from them.  Many foremost of heroes, possessed of beauty and fair complexions and adorned with garlands of gold, are sleeping on the ground.  Behold, beasts of prey are dragging and tearing them.  Others, with massive arms, are sleeping with maces in their embrace, as if those were beloved wives.  Others, still cased in armour, are holding in their hands their bright weapons.  Beasts of prey are not mangling them, O Janardana, regarding them to be still alive.  The beautiful garlands of pure gold on the necks of other illustrious heroes, as the latter are being dragged by carnivorous creatures,