Gathering together in ranks, the warriors with matted hair are engaged in war in the battlefield.
The lances bedecked with tassels seem leaning
Like the hermits with matted locks going towards the Ganges for taking a bath.46.
PAURI
The forces of Durga and demons are piercing each other like sharp thorns.
The warriors showered arrows in the battlefield.
Pulling their sharp swords, they chop the limbs.
When the forces met, at first there was war with swords.47.
PAURI
The forces came in great numbers and the ranks of warriors marched forward
They pulled their sharp swords from their scabbards.
With the blazing of the war, the great egoist warriors shouted loudly.
The pieces of head, trunk and arms look like garden-flowers.
And (the bodies) appear like the trees of sandalwood cut and sawed by the carpenters.48.
When the trumpet, enveloped by the hide of a donkey, was beaten, both the forces faced each other.
Looking at the warriors, Durga pointedly shot her arrows on the brave fighters.
The warriors on foot were killed, the elephants were killed alongwith the fall of the chariots and horse- riders.
The tips of arrows penetrated in the armour like the flowers on pomegranate-plants.
The goddess Kali got enraged, holding her sword in her right hand
She destroyed several thousand demons (Hiranayakashipus) from this end of the field to the other end.