बलाहकादिसप्तसेनानायकप्रेषणम् (Dispatch of the Seven Commanders beginning with Balāhaka) / Lalitopākhyāna War Continuation
एवं प्रवृत्ते समरे वीराणां च भयङ्करे / अशक्ये स्मर्तुमप्यन्तं कातरत्ववतां नृणाम् / भीषणानां भीषणे च शस्त्रव्यापारदुर्गमे
evaṃ pravṛtte samare vīrāṇāṃ ca bhayaṅkare / aśakye smartumapyantaṃ kātaratvavatāṃ nṛṇām / bhīṣaṇānāṃ bhīṣaṇe ca śastravyāpāradurgame
Thus, as the battle raged on, it grew dreadful even for the heroes; for men possessed of cowardice its end could not be imagined—terror among terrors, hard to pass through, made perilous by the ceaseless play of weapons.