444
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 10]
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, the heads of those who were cut to pieces by the arrows of Dhruva Mahārāja were decorated very beautifully with earrings and turbans. The legs of their bodies were as beautiful as golden palm trees, their arms were decorated with golden bracelets and armlets, and on their heads there were very valuable helmets bedecked with gold. All these ornaments lying on that battlefield were very attractive and could bewilder the mind of a hero.
PURPORT
It appears that in those days soldiers used to go to the battlefield highly decorated with golden ornaments and with helmets and turbans, and when they were dead the booty was taken by the enemy party. Their falling dead in battle with their many golden ornamental dresses was certainly a lucrative opportunity to the heroes on the battlefield.
TEXT 20
हतावशिष्टा इतरे रणाजिराद् 
  रक्षोगणाः क्षत्रियवर्यसायकैः । 
  प्रायो विवृक्णावयवा विदुद्धु- 
  र्मृगेन्द्रविक्रीडितयूयपा इव ॥२०॥
hatāvaśiṣṭā itare raṇājirād 
  rakṣo-gaṇāḥ kṣatriya-varya-sāyakaiḥ 
  prāyo vivṛkṇāvayavā vidudruvur 
  mṛgendra-vikrīḍita-yūthapā iva
hata-avaśiṣṭāḥ—the remaining soldiers who were not killed; itare—others; raṇa-ajirāt—from the battlefield; rakṣaḥ-gaṇāḥ—the Yakṣas; kṣatriya-varya—of the greatest of the kṣatriyas or warriors; sāyakaiḥ—by the arrows; prāyaḥ—mostly; vivṛkṇa—cut to pieces; avayavāḥ—their bodily limbs; vidudruvuḥ—fled; mṛgendra—by a lion; vikrīḍita—being defeated; yūthapāḥ—elephants; iva—like.
TRANSLATION
The remaining Yakṣas who somehow or other were not killed had their limbs cut to pieces by the arrows of the great warrior Dhruva Mahārāja. Thus they began to flee, just as elephants flee when defeated by a lion.