Having perpetrated that massacre according to his promise, and having trodden that untrodden way, Drona's son, O king, forgot his sorrow for the death of his father.
यथाप्रतिज्ञं तत् कर्म कृत्वा द्रौणायनिः प्रभो॥ दुर्गमा पदवीं गच्छन् पितुरासीद् गतज्वरः।