Besides these numerous single combats between renowned warriors, there was also indiscriminate fighting among common soldiers. The name of “sankula yuddha” was given to such free fighting and promiscuous carnage. The Kurukshetra battle witnessed many such “sankula” fights wherein countless men fought and died in the mad lust of battle, and on the field lay piles of slaughtered soldiers, charioteers, elephants and horses, and the ground became a bloody mire in winch it was difficult for the chariots to move about. In modern battles there is no such thing as single combats. It is all “sankula.”
