Mahabharata · Chapter 7.34
sthiro bhava mahārāja śokaṃ dhāraya durdharam /
mahāntaṃ bandhunāśaṃ te kathayiṣyāmi tacchṛśu //
padmavyūho mahārāja ācāryeṇābhikalpitaḥ /
tatra padmopamāḥ sarve rājāno viniveśitāḥ //
kumārā rājalokasya nikṣiptāḥ kesaropāmāḥ /
karṇikāstho mahārāja tasya duryodhano'bhavat //
kṛtābhisamayāḥ sarve suvarṇavikṛtadhvajāḥ /
raktāmbaradharāḥ sarve sarve raktavibhūṣaṇāḥ //
sarve raktapatākāśca sarve vai hemamālinaḥ /
candanāgurudigdhāṅgāḥ sragviṇaḥ sūkṣmavāsasaḥ //
sahitāḥ paryadhāvanta kārṣṇi pratiyuyutsavaḥ /
teṣāṃ daśasahasrāṇi babhūvurdṛḍhadhanvinām //
pautraṃ tava puraskṛtya lakṣmaṇaṃ priyadarśanam /
anyonyasamaduḥkhāste anyonyasamasāhasāḥ //
anyonyaṃ spardhamānāśca anyonyasya hite ratāḥ /
duryodhanastu rājendra sainyamadhye vyavasthitaḥ //
karṇaduḥśāsanakṛpairvṛto rājā mahārathaiḥ /
devarājopamaḥ śrīmāñśvetacchatrābhisaṃvṛtaḥ //
cāmaravyajanākṣepairudayanniva bhāskaraḥ /
pramukhe tasya sainyasya droṇo'vasthita nāyakaḥ //
sindhurājastathā'tiṣṭhacchrīmānmerurivācalaḥ /
sindhurājasya pārśvasthā aśvatthāmapurogamāḥ //
sutāstava mahārāja triṃśattridaśasannibhāḥ /
gāndhārarājaḥ kitavaḥ śalyo bhūriśravāstathā //
pārśvataḥ sindhurājasya vyarājanta mahārathāḥ / tataḥ pravavṛte yuddhaṃ tumulaṃ lomaharṣaṇam /
tāvakānāṃ pareṣāṃ ca mṛtyuṃ kṛtvā nivartanam //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0