Drona, guarded amidst this host of his warriors, as slain by the son of Prisata in battle; what can it be but there decree of Fate?
तस्य सेनासमूहस्य मध्ये द्रोणः सुरक्षितः। निहतः पार्षतेनाजौ किमन्यद् भागधेयतः॥