Simhasanadvatrimshika 24.p5

24.p5

tata ubhayadalaṃ militam. tasmin samaye: khaṭvāṅgair bhallaśastraiḥ khalakhuraṇagadāmudgarārdhenduvāṇair nārācair bhindipālair halaradamusalaiḥ śaktikuntaiḥ kṛpāṇaiḥ paṭṭīśaiś cakravajraprabhṛtibhir aparair divyaśastraiḥ sutīkṣṇair

Then the two armies clasht. At this time:

4. With clubs, arrows, knives, battle-knives [?], maces, bludgeons, and halfmoon-shaped darts; with iron arrows, javelins, plow-toothed clubs, lances, spears, and daggers; with tridents [like Çiva's], and many other sharp divine weapons, including the disc (of Viṣṇu) and the vajra-club (of Indra); thus the battle was fought against each other by the brave warriors of the two hosts, when they joined in conflict. Then in the battle: 5. Some noble warriors were struck down and fell lifeless on the field of battle; some, tho they fell unconscious (from blows), came to themselves and rose up by their own powers; some, mindful of glory as the highest blessing, burst forth in loud laughter, bent on their own destruction, and ran forward overcoming their fear of death, showing audacity in respect to the body. 6. Some were seized with trembling because of fear of conflict with the enemy; some, their bodies pierst with mortal wounds, became the lovers of the heavenly nymphs [that is, died]; some, of dauntless heroism, altho they were smitten in the belly by the enemy, and their entrails hung out, yet with their bodies split open with wounds went forward fearlessly to fight the foe. 7. Then the combatants' heaps of knives and other weapons shone like the sea, while the pile of hair, sinews, heads, and entrails (of the slain) seemed like Mount Çāivāla; the bodies of the noble elephants which were fallen seemed like the dead bodies of such a great ocean of men, and their bones in the blood like (sea-) shells (in such an ocean).