कबन्धास्तत्र चोत्पेतु: पतितस्वशिरोऽक्षिभि: । उद्यतायुधदोर्दण्डैराधावन्तो भटान् मृधे ॥ ४० ॥
kabandhas tatra cotpetuh patita-sva-siro-’ksibhih udyatayudha-dordandair adhavanto bhatan mrdhe
- kabandhah
- trunks (bodies without heads)
- tatra
- there (on the battlefield)
- ca
- also
- utpetuh
- generated
- patita
- fallen
- sva-sirah-aksibhih
- by the eyes in one’s head
- udyata
- raised
- ayudha
- equipped with weapons
- dordandaih
- the arms of whom
- adhavantah
- rushing toward
- bhatan
- the soldiers
- mrdhe
- on the battlefield.
Many headless trunks were generated on that battlefield. With weapons in their arms, those ghostly trunks, which could see with the eyes in the fallen heads, attacked the enemy soldiers.