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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 10]
pressed against their lips in anger. Helmets and earrings were scattered from these severed heads. Similarly, many arms, decorated with ornaments and clutching various weapons, were strewn here and there, as were many legs and thighs, which resembled the trunks of elephants.
TEXT 40
कबन्धास्तत्र चोत्पेतुः पतितस्वशिरोऽक्षिभिः। उद्यतायुधदोर्दण्डैराधावन्तो भटान् मृधे ॥४०॥
kabandhās tatra cotpetuḥ patita-sva-śiro-'kṣibhiḥ udyatāyudha-dordaṇḍair ādhāvanto bhaṭān mṛdhe
kabandhāḥ—trunks (bodies without heads); tatra—there (on the battlefield); ca—also; utpetuḥ—generated; patita—fallen; sva-śiraḥ-akṣibhiḥ—by the eyes in one's head; udyata—raised; āyudha—equipped with weapons; dordaṇḍaiḥ—the arms of whom; ādhāvantaḥ—rushing toward; bhaṭān—the soldiers; mṛdhe—on the battlefield.
TRANSLATION
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.
PURPORT
It appears that the heroes who died on the battlefield immediately became ghosts, and although their heads had been severed from their bodies, new trunks were generated, and these new trunks, seeing with the eyes in the severed heads, began to attack the enemy. In other words, many ghosts were generated to join the fight, and thus new trunks appeared on the battlefield.
TEXT 41
बलिर्महेन्द्रं दशभिस्त्रिभिरैरावतं शरैः । चतुर्भिश्चतुरो गाहानेकेनारोहयान्छयत् ॥४१॥