with great force.  Some elephants, filled with wrath pierced with their tusks horses with horsemen.  Others seizing such with great force hurled them to the ground with violence.  Many elephants, struck by foot-soldiers availing of the proper opportunities, uttered terrible cries of pain and fled away on all sides.  Among the foot-soldiers that fled away in that great battle throwing down their ornaments, there were many that were quickly encompassed on the field.  Elephant-warriors, riding on huge elephants, understanding indications of victory, wheeled their beasts and causing them to seize those beautiful ornaments, made the beasts to pierce them with their tusks.  Other foot-soldiers endued with great impetuosity and fierce might, surrounding those elephant-warriors thus engaged in those spots began to slay them.  Others in that great battle, thrown aloft into the air by elephants with their trunks, were pierced by those trained beasts with the points of their tusks as they fell down.  Others, suddenly seized by other elephants, were deprived of life with their tusks.  Others, borne away from their own divisions into the midst of others, were, O king, mangled by huge elephants which rolled them repeatedly on the ground.  Others, whirled on high like fans, were slain in that battle.  Others, hither and thither on the field, that stood full in front of other elephants had their bodies exceedingly pierced and torn.  Many elephants were deeply wounded with spears and lances and darts in their cheeks and frontal globes and parts between their tusks.  Exceedingly afflicted by fierce car-warriors and horsemen stationed on their flanks, many elephants, ripped open, fell down on the Earth.  In that dreadful battle many horsemen on their steeds, striking foot-soldiers with their lances, pinned them down to the Earth or crushed them with great force.  Some elephants, approaching mail-clad car-warriors, O sire, raised them aloft from their vehicles and hurled them down with great force upon the Earth in that fierce and awful fight.  Some huge elephants slain by means of cloth-yard shafts, fell down on the Earth like mountain summits riven by thunder.  Combatants, encountering combatants, began to strike each other with their fists, or seizing each other by the hair, began to drag and throw down and mangle each other.  Others, stretching their arms and throwing down their foes on the Earth, placed their feet on their chests and with great activity cut off their heads.  Some combatant, O king, struck with his feet some foe that was dead, and some, O king, struck off with his sword, the head of a falling foe, and some thrust his weapon into the body of a living foe.  A fierce battle took place there, O Bharata, in which the combatants struck one another with fists or seized one another’s hair or wrestled with one another with bare arms.  In many instances, combatants, using diverse kinds of weapons, took the lives of combatants engaged with others and, therefore,