Mahabharata 7.201.3 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 201, Shloka 3
क्रव्यादपक्षिसंघुष्ट भूतयक्षगणाकुलम् । निहत्य शात्रवान् भल्लै: सोडचिनोदू देहपर्वतम्
sañjaya uvāca | kravyādapakṣi-saṅghuṣṭaṃ bhūta-yakṣa-gaṇākulam | nihatya śātravān bhallaiḥ so 'cino(d) deha-parvatam ||
മൂർച്ചയുള്ള ഭല്ലങ്ങളാൽ ശത്രുവീരരെ വധിച്ച് അവൻ ദേഹങ്ങളുടെ പർവതംപോലൊരു കൂമ്പാരം കൂട്ടി. ആ ഭീകര കൂമ്പാരം മാംസഭക്ഷി പക്ഷികളുടെ കൂകൽ കൊണ്ട് മുഴങ്ങുകയും ഭൂത-യക്ഷഗണങ്ങൾ നിറഞ്ഞതുപോലെ തോന്നുകയും ചെയ്തു।
संजय उवाच
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The verse underscores the dehumanizing horror of war: victory is shown not as glory but as a landscape of death, where the battlefield becomes a haunt of carrion-birds and ominous beings—an ethical warning about the cost of violence.
Sanjaya describes a warrior (implied from context) slaughtering enemy troops with arrows and piling their bodies into a mound likened to a mountain, surrounded by scavenging birds and imagined as frequented by bhūtas and yakṣas.
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