हतवीरौघवप्रां तु भग्नायुधमहादुमाम्। शोणितौघमहातोयां यमसागरगामिनीम्॥ यकृत्प्लीहमहापदां विनिकीर्णान्त्रशैवलाम्। भिन्नकायशिरोमीनामङ्गावयवशाद्वलाम्॥ गृध्रहंसवराकीर्णा कङ्कसारससेविताम्। मेदःफेनसमाकीर्णामावर्तस्वननिःस्वनाम्॥ तां कापुरुषदुस्तारां युद्धभूमिमयीं नदीम्। नदीमिव घनापाये हंससारससेविताम्॥ राक्षसाः कपिमुख्यास्ते तेरुस्तां दुस्तरां नदीम्। यथा पद्मग्जोध्वस्तां नलिनी गजयूथपाः॥
hatavīraughavaprāṃ tu bhagnāyudhamahādumām| śoṇitaughamahātoyāṃ yamasāgaragāminīm|| yakṛtplīhamahāpadāṃ vinikīrṇāntraśaivalām| bhinnakāyaśiromīnāmaṅgāvayavaśādvalām|| gṛdhrahaṃsavarākīrṇā kaṅkasārasasevitām| medaḥphenasamākīrṇāmāvartasvananiḥsvanām|| tāṃ kāpuruṣadustārāṃ yuddhabhūmimayīṃ nadīm| nadīmiva ghanāpāye haṃsasārasasevitām|| rākṣasāḥ kapimukhyāste terustāṃ dustarāṃ nadīm| yathā padmagjodhvastāṃ nalinī gajayūthapāḥ||
English Meaning
As leaders of elephant-herds cross a lotus-tank covered with lotus-dust, those Rākşasas and choice monkeys crossed that river flowing in the field of conflict incapable of being crossed; having for her banks hosts of heroic warriors slain; for her mighty trees broken arms; for her volume of waters showers of blood; coursing to Yama resembling the Ocean; with livers and spleens for her vast slime; with scattered entrails for her moss; with riven bodies and heads for her fish; limbs for her lawns; swarming with vultures for her swans; with Kankas for her cranes, filled with fat representing her foam; with the roars (of warriors) for her sounds, incapable of being crossed by cravens, and resembling a real river swarming at the end of the rains with cranes and swans.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)