Shloka 23
वर्मभिश्व तथानीकैव्यवरकीर्णा वसुंधरा । वहाँ चूर-चूर हुए चक्कों, टूटे हुए उत्तमोत्तम आयुधों, टूक-टूक हुए धुरों, खण्डित हुए ईषादण्डों और बन्धुरों, मथे गये हाथियों, तोड़कर गिराये हुए ध्वजों, छिन्न-भिन्न कवचों और विनष्ट हुए सैनिकोंकी लाशोंसे वहाँकी पृथ्वी पट गयी थी || २१-२२ ह ।। स्रग्भिराभरणैर्वस्त्रैरनुकर्षैश्व मारिष
varmabhiś ca tathānīkaiḥ vyavakīrṇā vasuṃdharā | tatra cūrṇa-cūrṇīkṛtaiḥ cakraiḥ, ṭuṭitaiḥ uttamottamaiḥ āyudhaiḥ, ṭūkī-kṛtaiḥ dhuraiḥ, khaṇḍitaiḥ īṣādaṇḍaiḥ ca bandhuraiḥ, mathitaiḥ hastibhiḥ, bhittvā pātitaiḥ dhvajaiḥ, chinna-bhinnaiḥ kavacaiḥ ca vinaṣṭa-sainika-śavair tatra pṛthivī paṭitā iva babhūva || sragbhir ābharaṇaiḥ vastraiḥ anukarṣaiḥ ca, māriṣa ||
Sanjaya said: The earth there was strewn over with armour and with scattered battle-formations. That ground was as though carpeted with the wreckage of war—wheels smashed to fragments, the finest weapons broken, yokes splintered, shafts and fittings shattered, elephants mangled in the crush, banners torn down and cast aside, cuirasses ripped to pieces, and the bodies of fallen soldiers. It was a stark tableau of the moral cost of battle, where prowess and pride alike end in ruin, and the field itself bears witness to the devastation wrought when dharma is contested by arms.
संजय उवाच